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 Mongolia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Amon Düül to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Godley & Creme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Danielle Patucci,
Boredoms,
Todd Rundgren,
Popol Vuh,
Liliput,
Gang Starr,
Au Pairs,
Lungfish,
Dennis Brown,
Soft Cell,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Donald Byrd,
Eric Copeland,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Thompson Twins,
ABC,
Ultra Naté,
UT,
Country Teasers,
Pole,
Rufus Thomas,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Barry Ungar,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Spoonie Gee,
Basic Channel,
Cameo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Darondo,
Agitation Free,
Sister Nancy,
Stetsasonic,
Susan Cadogan,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Archie Shepp,
Talk Talk,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Star Department,
Moss Icon,
Animal Collective,
Curtis Mayfield,
Blake Baxter,
Zero Boys,
R.M.O.,
Roxy Music,
the Soft Cell,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joe Finger,
KRS-One,
The Doobie Brothers,
Adolescents,
The Smiths,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Camouflage,
Leonard Cohen,
Mission of Burma,
Negative Approach,
Wasted Youth,
The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine, The Music Machine.
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.