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 Burkina and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Mission of Burma to the electroclash 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Theoretical Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Skarface,
Jacques Brel,
The Stooges,
Donny Hathaway,
The Electric Prunes,
Visage,
Maleditus Sound,
Can,
Lungfish,
Q and Not U,
Flash Fearless,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wolf Eyes,
The American Breed,
Pagans,
Kayak,
Lou Christie,
Kenny Larkin,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dead Boys,
Rekid,
Don Cherry,
Scrapy,
Steve Hackett,
Thee Headcoats,
X-Ray Spex,
The Pop Group,
Index,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Basic Channel,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kas Product,
R.M.O.,
Alice Coltrane,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dual Sessions,
The Selecter,
Franke,
The Wake,
Soul Sonic Force,
Infiniti,
Sun Ra,
Althea and Donna,
Underground Resistance,
the Human League,
Sandy B,
Stereo Dub,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Black Sheep,
The Smiths,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
ABBA,
Grey Daturas,
Reuben Wilson,
The New Christs,
F. McDonald,
Gabor Szabo,
Sound Behaviour,
The United States of America,
Charles Mingus,
Simply Red,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.