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 Micronesia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Eden Ahbez to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Flash Fearless,
Ten City,
Jeff Lynne,
Crash Course in Science,
Nick Fraelich,
The Doobie Brothers,
Saccharine Trust,
the Fania All-Stars,
Camouflage,
In Retrospect,
Stereo Dub,
Toni Rubio,
Metal Thangz,
The Neon Judgement,
Al Stewart,
The Happenings,
Electric Prunes,
Soft Machine,
Gang Gang Dance,
Minutemen,
Marine Girls,
Bauhaus,
Dark Day,
David Axelrod,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kevin Saunderson,
Joe Finger,
JFA,
Black Flag,
a-ha,
Charles Mingus,
Guru Guru,
Althea and Donna,
Junior Murvin,
Jerry's Kids,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Association,
Idris Muhammad,
Stockholm Monsters,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lindisfarne,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The J.B.'s,
The Trojans,
Visage,
Blancmange,
Hoover,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ken Boothe,
Sister Nancy,
Carl Craig,
The Cowsills,
Ultravox,
The Evens,
The Mummies,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.