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 Tonga and from Woodstock.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the techno 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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nils Olav record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Theoretical Girls,
Franke,
The Monochrome Set,
Yusef Lateef,
Andrew Hill,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
ABBA,
The Divine Comedy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rhythm & Sound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
This Heat,
Shuggie Otis,
The Wake,
Mission of Burma,
Q65,
Banda Bassotti,
the Slits,
Matthew Bourne,
The Vogues,
Derrick May,
Schoolly D,
Fear,
Sister Nancy,
The Associates,
Leonard Cohen,
Panda Bear,
Danielle Patucci,
Tubeway Army,
Harmonia,
China Crisis,
Essential Logic,
Yazoo,
Eli Mardock,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Kerri Chandler,
Arcadia,
The Stooges,
Minny Pops,
Carl Craig,
Nils Olav,
Supertramp,
The Martian,
Guru Guru,
Connie Case,
The Mojo Men,
Skarface,
Wolf Eyes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Smoke,
Niagra,
Smog,
Joe Smooth,
Half Japanese,
Eve St. Jones,
Cluster,
Eric B and Rakim,
Country Teasers,
Intrusion,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Monks,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.