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 Finland and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Television Personalities to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Echo & the Bunnymen. All the underground hits.
All Connie Case tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
kango's stein massive,
David McCallum,
the Sonics,
Bobby Sherman,
Grandmaster Flash,
Procol Harum,
The Sonics,
Faraquet,
The Selecter,
Godley & Creme,
Scan 7,
Slick Rick,
Tim Buckley,
The Grass Roots,
Unwound,
Throbbing Gristle,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Gories,
R.M.O.,
Crash Course in Science,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cluster,
Morten Harket,
Visage,
Rites of Spring,
Skaos,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sun Ra,
MDC,
Marvin Gaye,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dual Sessions,
Tears for Fears,
Bad Manners,
The Knickerbockers,
Warren Ellis,
Dawn Penn,
Kaleidoscope,
Lucky Dragons,
This Heat,
Archie Shepp,
The Vogues,
Pet Shop Boys,
Vladislav Delay,
Masters at Work,
Joensuu 1685,
Anthony Braxton,
The Cure,
Jerry's Kids,
A Certain Ratio,
Scratch Acid,
Lou Christie,
Fluxion,
Excepter,
The Searchers,
The Walker Brothers,
Boz Scaggs,
Stereo Dub,
Vainqueur,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.