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 Palau and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Halifax.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sister Nancy to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Glenn Branca. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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?
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
ABBA,
Sam Rivers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Niagra,
Country Teasers,
The Slits,
The Five Americans,
Johnny Osbourne,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bobby Byrd,
Eve St. Jones,
Crooked Eye,
Roger Hodgson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jimmy McGriff,
Siglo XX,
Half Japanese,
The Shadows of Knight,
Boz Scaggs,
The Monochrome Set,
Ralphi Rosario,
Fat Boys,
The Happenings,
Zapp,
Todd Rundgren,
Pharoah Sanders,
Monolake,
The Trojans,
OOIOO,
Heaven 17,
The Wake,
the Association,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Metal Thangz,
Yellowson,
Amazonics,
The Last Poets,
The Techniques,
Motorama,
The Blackbyrds,
Television Personalities,
Peter & Gordon,
Ituana,
Hot Snakes,
Aural Exciters,
Judy Mowatt,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marcia Griffiths,
Das Ding,
The Golliwogs,
The Fortunes,
Angry Samoans,
Groovy Waters,
Don Cherry,
Q65,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Tim Buckley,
Ossler,
Excepter,
The Fire Engines,
Radiohead,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues, The Moody Blues.
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.