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 Botswana and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stetsasonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Young Marble Giants,
Supertramp,
Barbara Tucker,
Monolake,
John Coltrane,
Wire,
Sixth Finger,
Black Moon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Outsiders,
Pagans,
Jacob Miller,
Scion,
Big Daddy Kane,
Glenn Branca,
Panda Bear,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Beau Brummels,
Soul Sonic Force,
Unrelated Segments,
Country Teasers,
Black Flag,
Schoolly D,
Lucky Dragons,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Cure,
Radiohead,
The Last Poets,
Al Stewart,
The Busters,
Ludus,
The Monks,
Youth Brigade,
Marmalade,
Oblivians,
Bobby Sherman,
Anakelly,
Smog,
Intrusion,
Amazonics,
David McCallum,
Iggy Pop,
Prince Buster,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Vladislav Delay,
Japan,
China Crisis,
Babytalk,
Livin' Joy,
The Doors,
Arab on Radar,
Eli Mardock,
Camberwell Now,
T. Rex,
Can,
Nirvana,
Man Eating Sloth,
Alton Ellis,
R.M.O.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.