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 Singapore and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Zero Boys to the jazz 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 Larry & the Blue Notes. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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?
Niagra,
The Zeros,
Popol Vuh,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jandek,
Nas,
Ronnie Foster,
Jeff Lynne,
Boredoms,
The Young Rascals,
Banda Bassotti,
Essential Logic,
Albert Ayler,
Prince Buster,
Radio Birdman,
Joyce Sims,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Chris & Cosey,
Cecil Taylor,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Theoretical Girls,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sparks,
Lindisfarne,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
New Age Steppers,
The Human League,
Gabor Szabo,
The Litter,
Curtis Mayfield,
Stiv Bators,
Glenn Branca,
Young Marble Giants,
Janne Schatter,
Skaos,
Ossler,
10cc,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ken Boothe,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Public Image Ltd.,
Robert Görl,
Lee Hazlewood,
Aloha Tigers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Fortunes,
Johnny Osbourne,
John Holt,
The American Breed,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
kango's stein massive,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gong,
Crispian St. Peters,
MDC,
Peter & Gordon,
Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan, Derrick Morgan.
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.