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 Japan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the marimba 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 PIL to the grunge 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 an arpeggiator 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 mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Nik Kershaw,
ABBA,
Tim Buckley,
Bang On A Can,
Sun Ra,
Chris Corsano,
The Fortunes,
Althea and Donna,
a-ha,
Second Layer,
Warsaw,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Saccharine Trust,
Crime,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dawn Penn,
The Doobie Brothers,
Junior Murvin,
Eli Mardock,
Agitation Free,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Newcleus,
Kas Product,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Vainqueur,
Grey Daturas,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Swell Maps,
Ken Boothe,
Fear,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Modern Lovers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sun City Girls,
Minny Pops,
Lou Reed,
Wolf Eyes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rekid,
Davy DMX,
Bad Manners,
The Fall,
Minutemen,
Stockholm Monsters,
Harmonia,
Panda Bear,
David Axelrod,
Judy Mowatt,
Royal Trux,
Bill Near,
Zero Boys,
Delta 5,
Severed Heads,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sex Pistols,
Khruangbin,
Marine Girls,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Detroit Cobras,
Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker, Scott Walker.
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.