Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Gambia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Absolute Body Control to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by MDC. All the underground hits.
All Curtis Mayfield tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moleskins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
PIL,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lightning Bolt,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fluxion,
Television Personalities,
Johnny Clarke,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ponytail,
Scion,
Hasil Adkins,
Parry Music,
Sonic Youth,
The Gories,
Warsaw,
Amon Düül II,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Erasure,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Symarip,
The Mojo Men,
The Durutti Column,
The Raincoats,
Eric Dolphy,
Man Parrish,
Aswad,
The Fugs,
T. Rex,
Max Romeo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Blues Magoos,
Sarah Menescal,
Malaria!,
10cc,
H. Thieme,
The Birthday Party,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Monolake,
Cybotron,
Lee Hazlewood,
Josef K,
E-Dancer,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Rufus Thomas,
Nik Kershaw,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bootsy Collins,
The United States of America,
Guru Guru,
Inner City,
Peter & Gordon,
Echospace,
R.M.O.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Unrelated Segments,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.