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 Czech Republic and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Peter & Gordon to the grunge 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 Sunsets and Hearts. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Icehouse,
Marmalade,
Ten City,
Soft Cell,
Neu!,
Howard Jones,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sonic Youth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vainqueur,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gang Gang Dance,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Graham Central Station,
Ken Boothe,
8 Eyed Spy,
Colin Newman,
The Saints,
Pylon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
June Days,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Technova,
Scan 7,
Royal Trux,
JFA,
The Dirtbombs,
Erasure,
Roxy Music,
Josef K,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Quando Quango,
Scion,
Ornette Coleman,
Thee Headcoats,
Ludus,
Sound Behaviour,
Lakeside,
The Alarm Clocks,
Barbara Tucker,
The Wake,
Aaron Thompson,
Wings,
Heaven 17,
Magazine,
Oblivians,
Adolescents,
Supertramp,
Drexciya,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Franke,
Steve Hackett,
Fugazi,
Slave,
The Residents,
Agitation Free,
The Modern Lovers,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Tremeloes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gong,
Fluxion,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.