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 Tonga and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Victims to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlbäck 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Babytalk,
Donald Byrd,
Fad Gadget,
Todd Rundgren,
Roger Hodgson,
Minor Threat,
Brothers Johnson,
Zero Boys,
Angry Samoans,
Franke,
A Certain Ratio,
Byron Stingily,
The Monochrome Set,
Lalo Schifrin,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Radiohead,
Gabor Szabo,
the Bar-Kays,
Archie Shepp,
Parry Music,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Busters,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Scion,
Audionom,
Unwound,
Niagra,
the Slits,
China Crisis,
Bush Tetras,
Derrick May,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stetsasonic,
Goldenarms,
Vladislav Delay,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Man Parrish,
Inner City,
Scratch Acid,
Idris Muhammad,
Bobby Sherman,
Robert Hood,
Quando Quango,
Joey Negro,
Oneida,
Kayak,
Mr. Review,
The Dirtbombs,
Chris & Cosey,
The Victims,
Blake Baxter,
Rosa Yemen,
Radio Birdman,
Mantronix,
Suburban Knight,
Aswad,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.