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 Australia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Neu! to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Fela Kuti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric B and Rakim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Moss Icon,
Hashim,
Ultimate Spinach,
10cc,
Jimmy McGriff,
Steve Hackett,
Avey Tare,
Jeff Mills,
The Angels of Light,
Mark Hollis,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ice-T,
Au Pairs,
Deadbeat,
Scan 7,
Basic Channel,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Electric Prunes,
John Lydon,
Jandek,
The Invisible,
Albert Ayler,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Martian,
New Order,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Gun Club,
Fat Boys,
Mars,
The Move,
Derrick Morgan,
The Dead C,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bauhaus,
Television,
Cecil Taylor,
Cluster,
Soft Machine,
Minutemen,
Moebius,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Cure,
Schoolly D,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Searchers,
The Golliwogs,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Standells,
Marshall Jefferson,
L. Decosne,
Davy DMX,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Gories,
Shuggie Otis,
B.T. Express,
Altered Images,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ornette Coleman,
The Divine Comedy,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.