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 Qatar and from Accra.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Index to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine 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?
This Heat,
Swans,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gang Starr,
Amon Düül,
Jacob Miller,
Lower 48,
Bobby Womack,
Cheater Slicks,
Franke,
Jeff Mills,
Rufus Thomas,
Severed Heads,
Neil Young,
Oblivians,
Sarah Menescal,
Todd Terry,
10cc,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Youth Brigade,
Excepter,
Sight & Sound,
The Happenings,
Joe Finger,
Kurtis Blow,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Siglo XX,
Kayak,
Thompson Twins,
New Age Steppers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sixth Finger,
Organ,
Roxette,
Marvin Gaye,
The Raincoats,
Arab on Radar,
The Techniques,
James White and The Blacks,
Symarip,
Sex Pistols,
Ponytail,
Nirvana,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Laurel Aitken,
Crash Course in Science,
Infiniti,
The Standells,
Moby Grape,
Stockholm Monsters,
the Normal,
The Invisible,
The Cure,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Danielle Patucci,
Pulsallama,
Ronnie Foster,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bang On A Can,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.