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 Equatorial Guinea and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Swans to the disco 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All Soft Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Rites of Spring,
Lower 48,
Bad Manners,
Thee Headcoats,
Archie Shepp,
Echospace,
The Slackers,
Animal Collective,
The Fugs,
Cybotron,
New Age Steppers,
Q65,
Delta 5,
DJ Sneak,
John Foxx,
Niagra,
Ludus,
Aaron Thompson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Amon Düül II,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lakeside,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Black Flag,
Jawbox,
Barrington Levy,
L. Decosne,
Kurtis Blow,
Carl Craig,
Technova,
Black Sheep,
Byron Stingily,
Clear Light,
Hashim,
Eve St. Jones,
Bill Wells,
The Human League,
Blossom Toes,
Slick Rick,
The Mojo Men,
Isaac Hayes,
Cecil Taylor,
Yusef Lateef,
The Monochrome Set,
Robert Hood,
The Walker Brothers,
Scientists,
Thompson Twins,
Sound Behaviour,
Wolf Eyes,
Nils Olav,
Half Japanese,
Boredoms,
Smog,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Birthday Party,
The Leaves,
The Golliwogs,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.