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 Togo and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 theremin 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 Accadde A to the techno 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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Magazine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Los Fastidios,
Barclay James Harvest,
Barbara Tucker,
Subhumans,
Black Flag,
Pantaleimon,
Trumans Water,
The Cure,
AZ,
Accadde A,
The Searchers,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jeru the Damaja,
Y Pants,
Icehouse,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Sound,
Stiv Bators,
Whodini,
Unwound,
Ten City,
The Busters,
Easy Going,
The Offenders,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Gories,
Isaac Hayes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Symarip,
Inner City,
Panda Bear,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gang Green,
The Stooges,
The Fire Engines,
Bootsy Collins,
Tim Buckley,
Hasil Adkins,
Sam Rivers,
The Black Dice,
Ken Boothe,
Freddie Wadling,
Avey Tare,
Janne Schatter,
Main Source,
Peter & Gordon,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Invisible,
kango's stein massive,
Pagans,
Deepchord,
Babytalk,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
EPMD,
Goldenarms,
The Dave Clark Five,
Black Bananas,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Monks,
Ohio Players,
Derrick Morgan,
Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound, Maleditus Sound.
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.