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 Sudan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 MDC to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All The Count Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Average White Band 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glenn Branca record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
Idris Muhammad,
Ralphi Rosario,
Subhumans,
Yaz,
The Move,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pole,
The Dirtbombs,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fortunes,
The Associates,
Public Image Ltd.,
Susan Cadogan,
Surgeon,
Aswad,
Sixth Finger,
Essential Logic,
ABC,
Lou Reed,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Kinks,
Glenn Branca,
The Detroit Cobras,
Thompson Twins,
cv313,
Kerrie Biddell,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Aaron Thompson,
Porter Ricks,
Television Personalities,
Mark Hollis,
Reuben Wilson,
Funky Four + One,
Television,
Mars,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Sonics,
The American Breed,
Al Stewart,
Graham Central Station,
John Cale,
Monolake,
Goldenarms,
PIL,
The Electric Prunes,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Hashim,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Section 25,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Cymande,
Quantec,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Zero Boys,
Jandek,
B.T. Express,
Alice Coltrane,
Skriet,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.