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 Cyprus and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the grime 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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Frankie Knuckles,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Parry Music,
Barry Ungar,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bobby Hutcherson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Desert Stars,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lakeside,
Matthew Bourne,
Spandau Ballet,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Essential Logic,
The Names,
Skaos,
Iggy Pop,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Second Layer,
Pet Shop Boys,
Popol Vuh,
Schoolly D,
James White and The Blacks,
Aural Exciters,
Liliput,
Ronan,
New Order,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Hasil Adkins,
Soft Cell,
The Slits,
The Gap Band,
The Standells,
The Cramps,
Youth Brigade,
Kenny Larkin,
Basic Channel,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Simply Red,
Hardrive,
Bob Dylan,
The Beau Brummels,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Skriet,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Warren Ellis,
The Monochrome Set,
the Normal,
Aswad,
Thee Headcoats,
Delta 5,
Average White Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
OOIOO,
Johnny Clarke,
Sister Nancy,
Lower 48,
Zapp,
Arthur Verocai,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.