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 Syria and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Radiopuhelimet to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Pharoah Sanders. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scan 7 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Derrick May,
10cc,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Inner City,
Unrelated Segments,
Avey Tare,
Harmonia,
Funky Four + One,
Ponytail,
Au Pairs,
The Doors,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pagans,
Faraquet,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Skarface,
Ice-T,
Roxy Music,
the Fania All-Stars,
Joe Smooth,
Hoover,
Hasil Adkins,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Roger Hodgson,
Peter & Gordon,
Bauhaus,
Deadbeat,
Fluxion,
Wolf Eyes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
World's Most,
Drexciya,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Heaven 17,
Hot Snakes,
Intrusion,
Organ,
Pussy Galore,
Dorothy Ashby,
Deakin,
Mark Hollis,
The Smiths,
Electric Light Orchestra,
June of 44,
Traffic Nightmare,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Morten Harket,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Crash Course in Science,
Oneida,
Arthur Verocai,
Tomorrow,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scan 7,
Idris Muhammad,
The Smoke,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minny Pops,
Banda Bassotti,
Main Source,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.