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 Marshall Islands and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Delta 5 to the grunge 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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Shuggie Otis,
Japan,
Gabor Szabo,
Yaz,
Nik Kershaw,
Banda Bassotti,
The Vogues,
Radio Birdman,
Crash Course in Science,
The Kinks,
The Smiths,
Kool Moe Dee,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lucky Dragons,
Fatback Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Birthday Party,
Bob Dylan,
Glenn Branca,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
JFA,
John Foxx,
R.M.O.,
Stetsasonic,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Excepter,
the Human League,
Popol Vuh,
Sällskapet,
Sun Ra,
Gastr Del Sol,
Moby Grape,
The Mojo Men,
Nirvana,
Pylon,
Agent Orange,
Avey Tare,
Bobby Byrd,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Sound,
Boogie Down Productions,
Half Japanese,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jawbox,
Thee Headcoats,
The Golliwogs,
The Buckinghams,
Soft Cell,
Pierre Henry,
Whodini,
Scientists,
Scott Walker,
Procol Harum,
Animal Collective,
Cybotron,
the Sonics,
Joyce Sims,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.