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 Nepal and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Columbus.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Stetsasonic to the punk 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Blackbyrds,
Simply Red,
Marvin Gaye,
Jandek,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Qualms,
Marine Girls,
Kaleidoscope,
Cymande,
The Fugs,
Ten City,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Roger Hodgson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Brothers Johnson,
La Düsseldorf,
Heaven 17,
The Alarm Clocks,
Wally Richardson,
JFA,
The Count Five,
Warren Ellis,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Blossom Toes,
Hasil Adkins,
Janne Schatter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Moon,
Zapp,
Godley & Creme,
Monks,
Talk Talk,
Matthew Bourne,
The J.B.'s,
Minnie Riperton,
Soft Cell,
Kayak,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Drexciya,
Q and Not U,
Peter & Gordon,
Kenny Larkin,
Model 500,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Minny Pops,
The Detroit Cobras,
Laurel Aitken,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
John Cale,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Moss Icon,
Skaos,
Rites of Spring,
Maurizio,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Inner City,
Mr. Review,
Livin' Joy,
The Seeds,
The Smiths,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.