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 Tajikistan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the techno 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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All Quando Quango tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Golliwogs,
Colin Newman,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Althea and Donna,
Scion,
Outsiders,
Pylon,
The Vogues,
Al Stewart,
PIL,
Mark Hollis,
Piero Umiliani,
Scan 7,
These Immortal Souls,
Marc Almond,
Organ,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jandek,
Sparks,
Amon Düül,
The Fire Engines,
Interpol,
Arab on Radar,
Country Teasers,
The Human League,
Blancmange,
Visage,
Sarah Menescal,
Ultravox,
Roxy Music,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Rhythm & Sound,
Swans,
The Martian,
Sixth Finger,
Arthur Verocai,
UT,
KRS-One,
The Evens,
Joyce Sims,
Howard Jones,
Alison Limerick,
Cybotron,
Amazonics,
Dual Sessions,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Accadde A,
Reuben Wilson,
Lungfish,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Donald Byrd,
Sight & Sound,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Laurel Aitken,
The Wake,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Crispy Ambulance,
Aswad,
the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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.