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 Honduras and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
JFA,
Underground Resistance,
Albert Ayler,
Siglo XX,
The Velvet Underground,
Porter Ricks,
Buzzcocks,
June of 44,
Absolute Body Control,
Ronan,
Technova,
The Mummies,
The Monks,
U.S. Maple,
The Black Dice,
World's Most,
The Misunderstood,
Soul Sonic Force,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Knickerbockers,
kango's stein massive,
K-Klass,
Mandrill,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Zeros,
Susan Cadogan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skarface,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Panda Bear,
Lou Christie,
Khruangbin,
Ohio Players,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Yaz,
Vainqueur,
Zero Boys,
John Lydon,
Supertramp,
Inner City,
The Young Rascals,
Bob Dylan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Josef K,
Popol Vuh,
Shuggie Otis,
OOIOO,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soul II Soul,
Carl Craig,
The Fuzztones,
Matthew Halsall,
The Searchers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nas,
Dual Sessions,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Swans,
The Birthday Party,
Bobby Byrd,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.