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 Afghanistan and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 synthesizer 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 The Doobie Brothers to the rock 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 The Gories. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Dawn Penn,
Glenn Branca,
JFA,
Ten City,
Buzzcocks,
Simply Red,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Radiohead,
Alton Ellis,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lower 48,
Patti Smith,
Theoretical Girls,
UT,
Matthew Halsall,
Outsiders,
The Gories,
The Real Kids,
Nick Fraelich,
The Moleskins,
Graham Central Station,
Idris Muhammad,
The Seeds,
Sugar Minott,
Swell Maps,
Boz Scaggs,
Q65,
Aswad,
Cal Tjader,
Au Pairs,
Tomorrow,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Roxette,
Ponytail,
Qualms,
John Lydon,
Angry Samoans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
H. Thieme,
Warren Ellis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Human League,
the Swans,
Roxy Music,
The Dave Clark Five,
John Foxx,
Audionom,
Janne Schatter,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cheater Slicks,
The United States of America,
Cymande,
Lee Hazlewood,
Y Pants,
Faraquet,
Soft Cell,
Agitation Free,
Pere Ubu,
New York Dolls,
The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.
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.