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 Chile and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Joensuu 1685 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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Unwound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Symarip 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
The Angels of Light,
Section 25,
Camberwell Now,
Yaz,
Crash Course in Science,
Monks,
Inner City,
Peter & Gordon,
Stereo Dub,
Stiv Bators,
Donny Hathaway,
Jerry's Kids,
The Young Rascals,
The Stooges,
Crispy Ambulance,
Joey Negro,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Hardrive,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Eli Mardock,
Blancmange,
Electric Prunes,
Average White Band,
The Offenders,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Mojo Men,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
10cc,
Kayak,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Smiths,
the Bar-Kays,
Panda Bear,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Godley & Creme,
Joensuu 1685,
DJ Style,
Ponytail,
Faraquet,
Toni Rubio,
Magma,
Duran Duran,
Thee Headcoats,
Desert Stars,
Sound Behaviour,
the Normal,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
X-102,
Robert Wyatt,
Con Funk Shun,
The Divine Comedy,
Marshall Jefferson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Motions,
Isaac Hayes,
Quando Quango,
Chris & Cosey,
Harry Pussy,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.