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 Turkmenistan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the guitar 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 Public Image Ltd. to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronan,
Neu!,
The Young Rascals,
John Foxx,
Soulsonic Force,
Depeche Mode,
Chrome,
The Mojo Men,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Boogie Down Productions,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Dual Sessions,
Zero Boys,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pharoah Sanders,
Visage,
Warren Ellis,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Fugs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ludus,
Crash Course in Science,
Gabor Szabo,
Deadbeat,
The Kinks,
David McCallum,
Television Personalities,
Arab on Radar,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bad Manners,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eve St. Jones,
Max Romeo,
Sun City Girls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Count Five,
Letta Mbulu,
Unrelated Segments,
Mission of Burma,
Mars,
Angry Samoans,
Yazoo,
Marcia Griffiths,
Can,
Bizarre Inc.,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pantytec,
Kayak,
R.M.O.,
K-Klass,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Blues Magoos,
Index,
Rites of Spring,
The Litter,
Accadde A,
Franke,
Fugazi,
Maurizio,
UT,
AZ,
Audionom,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.