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 Afghanistan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Doors to the electroclash 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 Ajijia Myrayebe. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Basic Channel,
June Days,
Jerry Gold Smith,
EPMD,
The Gun Club,
Brick,
Isaac Hayes,
Todd Rundgren,
Mo-Dettes,
The Blackbyrds,
Robert Wyatt,
Nico,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Association,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Evens,
The Tremeloes,
Alton Ellis,
Monolake,
Skaos,
Danielle Patucci,
Public Enemy,
Sun Ra,
Nirvana,
Tubeway Army,
Amazonics,
Pylon,
David Axelrod,
Aural Exciters,
Jeff Lynne,
Erykah Badu,
Roxy Music,
T.S.O.L.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Adolescents,
Zapp,
Flipper,
Half Japanese,
The Black Dice,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cameo,
Stetsasonic,
The Moleskins,
Bob Dylan,
the Normal,
Lebanon Hanover,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Moby Grape,
Stereo Dub,
Leonard Cohen,
Camberwell Now,
The Slackers,
Visage,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Trojans,
Liliput,
June of 44,
Tropical Tobacco,
Agitation Free,
Index,
The Electric Prunes,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.