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 Maldives and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Portland.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Anakelly to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Section 25,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ronnie Foster,
Eric Copeland,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Saints,
Swans,
Circle Jerks,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gang of Four,
Jesper Dahlback,
FM Einheit,
Kaleidoscope,
Main Source,
Harpers Bizarre,
Technova,
Altered Images,
Surgeon,
Monks,
John Holt,
Pantytec,
Suicide,
DJ Sneak,
Joe Finger,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Blues Magoos,
Sixth Finger,
Grey Daturas,
The Real Kids,
Harmonia,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Amon Düül II,
Derrick Morgan,
Thompson Twins,
Lower 48,
Janne Schatter,
Joensuu 1685,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Graham Central Station,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ponytail,
The Knickerbockers,
Josef K,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Quando Quango,
Slave,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Crime,
Aloha Tigers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camberwell Now,
Marmalade,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sun Ra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jeff Lynne,
Warren Ellis,
Siglo XX,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.