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 Malta and from Glasgow.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 Tubeway Army to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Barclay James Harvest. All the underground hits.
All The Slits tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Joensuu 1685,
Lee Hazlewood,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cluster,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Man Parrish,
Masters at Work,
The Buckinghams,
Depeche Mode,
Robert Wyatt,
the Bar-Kays,
The Fuzztones,
Angry Samoans,
Bauhaus,
Sam Rivers,
Underground Resistance,
E-Dancer,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gichy Dan,
Unrelated Segments,
Sun Ra,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Blackbyrds,
The Angels of Light,
Patti Smith,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drive Like Jehu,
Skriet,
Procol Harum,
Barbara Tucker,
Nirvana,
Banda Bassotti,
The Moody Blues,
X-102,
Boredoms,
Moby Grape,
Camouflage,
Barry Ungar,
Faraquet,
Arab on Radar,
Eric Dolphy,
Japan,
The Neon Judgement,
Max Romeo,
Godley & Creme,
Lou Christie,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Detroit Cobras,
Wire,
Roxette,
B.T. Express,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bobby Byrd,
The Dead C,
Metal Thangz,
The Cramps,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.