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 Kiribati and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the guitar 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 Silicon Teens to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Schoolly D,
48th St. Collective,
Quantec,
Lungfish,
The Stooges,
Radiohead,
Crime,
Au Pairs,
Jeru the Damaja,
Barrington Levy,
Thompson Twins,
D'Angelo,
Arcadia,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Fire Engines,
Shuggie Otis,
Neu!,
Wolf Eyes,
Ohio Players,
Country Joe & The Fish,
John Coltrane,
Robert Görl,
The Cramps,
The Toasters,
Television,
Iggy Pop,
Gang of Four,
Grey Daturas,
E-Dancer,
Black Bananas,
The Litter,
Al Stewart,
The Walker Brothers,
Oneida,
Cybotron,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Blancmange,
Gang Starr,
June Days,
Monolake,
cv313,
Harmonia,
Pagans,
JFA,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Fall,
Y Pants,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lindisfarne,
Hasil Adkins,
Aswad,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Max Romeo,
Icehouse,
Deakin,
The Smoke,
The Red Krayola,
Derrick May,
Sight & Sound,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.