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 Kiribati and from Columbus.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Dawn Penn to the disco 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 Crooked Eye. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach 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?
Delta 5,
Jesper Dahlback,
Todd Rundgren,
Model 500,
Groovy Waters,
The Dirtbombs,
The Gladiators,
Skaos,
Kaleidoscope,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Saccharine Trust,
the Soft Cell,
Ituana,
The Black Dice,
Motorama,
Smog,
the Slits,
Tres Demented,
Jacques Brel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
David Axelrod,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barclay James Harvest,
Swell Maps,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Boogie Down Productions,
Black Sheep,
Moebius,
Nas,
Jeff Lynne,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Loose Ends,
The Blues Magoos,
Camouflage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Outsiders,
The Litter,
Freddie Wadling,
Circle Jerks,
Pulsallama,
Radiopuhelimet,
Essential Logic,
Echospace,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eve St. Jones,
Stockholm Monsters,
DNA,
Babytalk,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wolf Eyes,
Peter & Gordon,
Aloha Tigers,
Brick,
The Divine Comedy,
Zapp,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.