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 Brazil and from London.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manila.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Scientists to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba 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 an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
The Cowsills,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Buckinghams,
FM Einheit,
Ohio Players,
Brass Construction,
Average White Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Charles Mingus,
Wasted Youth,
cv313,
Agent Orange,
Delta 5,
The Fugs,
the Human League,
the Soft Cell,
Infiniti,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bobby Sherman,
Peter & Gordon,
Marshall Jefferson,
U.S. Maple,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
World's Most,
EPMD,
Godley & Creme,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ronnie Foster,
The Victims,
Amazonics,
Gerry Rafferty,
Livin' Joy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aaron Thompson,
Jacob Miller,
Outsiders,
Accadde A,
Joy Division,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Trojans,
Sound Behaviour,
Monolake,
Fad Gadget,
Sun Ra,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Stooges,
Deadbeat,
Iggy Pop,
The Gladiators,
Dennis Brown,
Ice-T,
Malaria!,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.