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 Indonesia and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Gang Green to the grime 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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Radio Birdman,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Dual Sessions,
Moss Icon,
Zero Boys,
Young Marble Giants,
Visage,
the Sonics,
Glenn Branca,
Terrestrial Tones,
Average White Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Liliput,
Bill Near,
The Invisible,
Jandek,
Pharoah Sanders,
Silicon Teens,
Rekid,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Knickerbockers,
The Remains,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Offenders,
Newcleus,
Ten City,
Bad Manners,
Junior Murvin,
T.S.O.L.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Boogie Down Productions,
David McCallum,
The Skatalites,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Last Poets,
Siglo XX,
Archie Shepp,
The Durutti Column,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Gichy Dan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Avey Tare,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Moebius,
The Stooges,
Franke,
Kayak,
Jeff Mills,
The Evens,
Shuggie Otis,
Quadrant,
Eric B and Rakim,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fatback Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Joe Finger,
The Selecter,
Panda Bear,
The Five Americans,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.