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 Moldova and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 T. Rex to the punk 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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All The Cowsills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moss Icon,
Unwound,
Joensuu 1685,
The Star Department,
The Black Dice,
Wire,
Connie Case,
Lungfish,
T. Rex,
Technova,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Q and Not U,
Babytalk,
Oblivians,
The United States of America,
The Mojo Men,
Fear,
Dennis Brown,
The Fortunes,
Kevin Saunderson,
Youth Brigade,
Minnie Riperton,
FM Einheit,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jimmy McGriff,
Amazonics,
Freddie Wadling,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marvin Gaye,
Gang Starr,
Kenny Larkin,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Zeros,
Albert Ayler,
Essential Logic,
Matthew Bourne,
A Flock of Seagulls,
ABBA,
Mantronix,
The Move,
Maleditus Sound,
Joe Smooth,
The Walker Brothers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Warsaw,
Morten Harket,
Stereo Dub,
Wasted Youth,
The Blackbyrds,
Adolescents,
Interpol,
The Invisible,
Blossom Toes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Q65,
Gerry Rafferty,
Joy Division,
Tom Boy,
Archie Shepp,
Mo-Dettes,
Camberwell Now,
Davy DMX,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.