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 Tunisia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Philadelphia.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Albert Ayler to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Easy Going tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stetsasonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Nico,
Bronski Beat,
World's Most,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Absolute Body Control,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
In Retrospect,
Essential Logic,
Smog,
Easy Going,
Sun Ra,
Kayak,
Spoonie Gee,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roxette,
Black Pus,
Lungfish,
Sällskapet,
Gang Starr,
Lou Reed,
the Association,
The Shadows of Knight,
Whodini,
Faust,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Invisible,
Danielle Patucci,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Skarface,
Graham Central Station,
Johnny Clarke,
Traffic Nightmare,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Au Pairs,
The Residents,
Barbara Tucker,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Happenings,
Marvin Gaye,
The Birthday Party,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Bush Tetras,
Crime,
Duran Duran,
Minor Threat,
Neil Young,
Sixth Finger,
Country Teasers,
Terry Callier,
The Zeros,
Gong,
Spandau Ballet,
The Mummies,
Scrapy,
Accadde A,
Panda Bear,
OOIOO,
Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen, Minutemen.
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.