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 Liechtenstein and from Lagos.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Audionom to the jazz 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Minor Threat,
Mission of Burma,
Dave Gahan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Pop Group,
Hoover,
Lungfish,
Angry Samoans,
Soulsonic Force,
Organ,
The Residents,
Man Parrish,
Piero Umiliani,
Soft Machine,
Grauzone,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fear,
Rufus Thomas,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Goldenarms,
the Human League,
Main Source,
Bob Dylan,
Aaron Thompson,
Mo-Dettes,
Bobby Byrd,
Clear Light,
Ultimate Spinach,
Crispian St. Peters,
Adolescents,
The Fuzztones,
T.S.O.L.,
Blossom Toes,
Kerri Chandler,
Tears for Fears,
Sandy B,
The Durutti Column,
Lakeside,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Steve Hackett,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
X-101,
Lyres,
Hardrive,
Gerry Rafferty,
In Retrospect,
Negative Approach,
MDC,
Nico,
Electric Prunes,
Jandek,
Motorama,
David McCallum,
Kaleidoscope,
Basic Channel,
Moss Icon,
Joensuu 1685,
One Last Wish,
Archie Shepp,
Laurel Aitken,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.