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 Saudi Arabia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 chamberlin 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 Seeds to the disco 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Accadde A record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
World's Most,
Main Source,
Warren Ellis,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Guru Guru,
Dead Boys,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Man Eating Sloth,
Radiohead,
Pulsallama,
Ponytail,
Gang of Four,
The Last Poets,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sexual Harrassment,
Patti Smith,
Skriet,
The Fuzztones,
The Stooges,
Soul Sonic Force,
Desert Stars,
Infiniti,
Ten City,
The Names,
Half Japanese,
This Heat,
Masters at Work,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sister Nancy,
Mars,
The Toasters,
The Modern Lovers,
B.T. Express,
DJ Style,
Oblivians,
Technova,
Spandau Ballet,
Lightning Bolt,
Rod Modell,
Kayak,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Victims,
Chris Corsano,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ultra Naté,
The Move,
The Evens,
Neu!,
Aswad,
Boredoms,
The Sound,
Second Layer,
The Dave Clark Five,
Moebius,
Flipper,
Suburban Knight,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Reed,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.