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 Chile and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the techno 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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Osbourne,
Sparks,
Sonny Sharrock,
Flash Fearless,
Isaac Hayes,
The Mummies,
Judy Mowatt,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Jacob Miller,
John Coltrane,
Neu!,
Vladislav Delay,
Pussy Galore,
The Offenders,
Marc Almond,
a-ha,
The Young Rascals,
Unrelated Segments,
Scrapy,
James White and The Blacks,
Dawn Penn,
Graham Central Station,
Reagan Youth,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Robert Hood,
Sonic Youth,
Warren Ellis,
Camouflage,
Sound Behaviour,
Agitation Free,
Parry Music,
Fela Kuti,
Stockholm Monsters,
Deakin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Kinks,
Masters at Work,
Todd Rundgren,
Pole,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Tim Buckley,
Anthony Braxton,
The Durutti Column,
In Retrospect,
Derrick Morgan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Can,
Wally Richardson,
The Remains,
Ten City,
Todd Terry,
The Smoke,
Average White Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Harmonia,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Sonics,
Ultra Naté,
The Searchers,
Bad Manners,
Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti, Infiniti.
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.