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 Nicaragua and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 harpsichord 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 Brick to the disco 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 Wings. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
OOIOO,
Organ,
The Red Krayola,
Livin' Joy,
Ituana,
Jacques Brel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pere Ubu,
Skriet,
Minutemen,
Neu!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Christie,
Rotary Connection,
Bronski Beat,
Judy Mowatt,
Au Pairs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Unrelated Segments,
Y Pants,
Jacob Miller,
The Mojo Men,
Slave,
The Golliwogs,
Grey Daturas,
Ronnie Foster,
DJ Sneak,
The Invisible,
Bobby Womack,
The Skatalites,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Royal Trux,
LL Cool J,
Nico,
Bang On A Can,
Can,
Black Bananas,
Roxy Music,
Talk Talk,
Subhumans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Remains,
The Velvet Underground,
Guru Guru,
Gichy Dan,
Flash Fearless,
The Vogues,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Faust,
The Misunderstood,
Bootsy Collins,
Nirvana,
Half Japanese,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mr. Review,
Blake Baxter,
The Cramps,
The Motions,
The Stooges,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Soft Machine,
the Soft Cell,
The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders.
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.