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 Poland and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Bologna.
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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Harpers Bizarre to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Boz Scaggs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Leaves,
Lindisfarne,
Rosa Yemen,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Dirtbombs,
The Cowsills,
The Remains,
Section 25,
The Grass Roots,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Normal,
Faraquet,
Traffic Nightmare,
Can,
Sixth Finger,
Absolute Body Control,
Von Mondo,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Music Machine,
Oneida,
Gichy Dan,
Lower 48,
Soulsonic Force,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aloha Tigers,
Glenn Branca,
Wasted Youth,
48th St. Collective,
Scion,
Ronnie Foster,
This Heat,
The Kinks,
Johnny Clarke,
Intrusion,
John Holt,
Glambeats Corp.,
Vladislav Delay,
Judy Mowatt,
Simply Red,
Alton Ellis,
The Monochrome Set,
The Alarm Clocks,
Soul II Soul,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aswad,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bob Dylan,
Pantytec,
Al Stewart,
UT,
Silicon Teens,
Eden Ahbez,
L. Decosne,
KRS-One,
Whodini,
Radiopuhelimet,
Skriet,
Mary Jane Girls,
Khruangbin,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.