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 Liberia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lagos.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Camberwell Now to the electroclash 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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
Severed Heads,
Terry Callier,
Juan Atkins,
Erykah Badu,
Television Personalities,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Misunderstood,
Camouflage,
Babytalk,
Amon Düül,
Rufus Thomas,
Lyres,
Magazine,
The Last Poets,
The Techniques,
Roy Ayers,
Jeff Lynne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Velvet Underground,
Model 500,
ABBA,
Barclay James Harvest,
Yellowson,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Gichy Dan,
Dorothy Ashby,
Alison Limerick,
Y Pants,
Lower 48,
The Dave Clark Five,
Blancmange,
Frankie Knuckles,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Urselle,
Robert Hood,
David Bowie,
Q and Not U,
Josef K,
Faraquet,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Wally Richardson,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Mojo Men,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Blake Baxter,
Tim Buckley,
Gang of Four,
Lee Hazlewood,
New Age Steppers,
Eve St. Jones,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sam Rivers,
The Litter,
Das Ding,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Evens,
Underground Resistance,
The Alarm Clocks,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.