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 Russia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 Tokyo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Aloha Tigers to the rock 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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All B.T. Express tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sly & The Family Stone record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Au Pairs,
Scion,
Jeff Mills,
Kenny Larkin,
Altered Images,
Sonic Youth,
The Barracudas,
MC5,
Model 500,
Henry Cow,
The Kinks,
The Victims,
Spandau Ballet,
Minnie Riperton,
Mars,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joey Negro,
the Bar-Kays,
Ice-T,
Icehouse,
Metal Thangz,
The Electric Prunes,
A Certain Ratio,
Johnny Clarke,
Slick Rick,
Barry Ungar,
Ronan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
La Düsseldorf,
Eli Mardock,
Cymande,
Whodini,
Agent Orange,
Von Mondo,
The Martian,
Sun Ra,
Boz Scaggs,
Young Marble Giants,
Depeche Mode,
Pantaleimon,
Gabor Szabo,
Guru Guru,
K-Klass,
Wings,
New Order,
Section 25,
Heaven 17,
Television Personalities,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Skatalites,
Hashim,
Minutemen,
Donald Byrd,
FM Einheit,
OOIOO,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Neil Young,
Ludus,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Hot Snakes,
Robert Hood,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.