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 France and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Excepter to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Donny Hathaway,
Pylon,
The Modern Lovers,
Kas Product,
Make Up,
Jacob Miller,
The Grass Roots,
Excepter,
Don Cherry,
The Stooges,
Erykah Badu,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Nils Olav,
Chris Corsano,
Eddi Front,
Marcia Griffiths,
New Age Steppers,
Prince Buster,
Scan 7,
Hardrive,
Tom Boy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Peter and Kerry,
Unrelated Segments,
EPMD,
F. McDonald,
Bootsy Collins,
MDC,
The Index,
Ituana,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Marine Girls,
The Alarm Clocks,
Wally Richardson,
Subhumans,
Moebius,
Wolf Eyes,
Wasted Youth,
Shoche,
Procol Harum,
Zero Boys,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Pretty Things,
CMW,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Blake Baxter,
Pussy Galore,
New York Dolls,
Dead Boys,
The Moleskins,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Terrestrial Tones,
It's A Beautiful Day,
48th St. Collective,
David Axelrod,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Alison Limerick,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Glenn Branca,
Kayak,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.