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 Djibouti and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Electric Light Orchestra to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Cowsills. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Buzzcocks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Leaves,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
10cc,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Doors,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Public Image Ltd.,
Average White Band,
Groovy Waters,
Minny Pops,
Heaven 17,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Godley & Creme,
Amon Düül II,
John Cale,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pantaleimon,
Electric Prunes,
Second Layer,
the Normal,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Chris Corsano,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Leonard Cohen,
Newcleus,
Symarip,
Donny Hathaway,
R.M.O.,
Saccharine Trust,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Shadows of Knight,
China Crisis,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joensuu 1685,
Camberwell Now,
Magma,
The American Breed,
Arcadia,
Gichy Dan,
Essential Logic,
The Offenders,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
the Swans,
Bobby Womack,
The Slackers,
Can,
Jawbox,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dave Gahan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Zapp,
Main Source,
Tomorrow,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Blancmange,
Warsaw,
Outsiders,
Liliput,
T.S.O.L.,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.