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 Guyana and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Deakin to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lakeside,
The Smiths,
Johnny Clarke,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sound Behaviour,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bauhaus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Marcia Griffiths,
ABBA,
Marmalade,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mark Hollis,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Juan Atkins,
The Happenings,
Roy Ayers,
Index,
The Alarm Clocks,
Can,
Neil Young,
Bobby Sherman,
Ten City,
Chris & Cosey,
Alison Limerick,
Wally Richardson,
Todd Terry,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Echospace,
The Mummies,
Absolute Body Control,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Drive Like Jehu,
Heaven 17,
Bluetip,
The Zeros,
Mr. Review,
Minnie Riperton,
Pantytec,
X-Ray Spex,
The Fugs,
Lindisfarne,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
Deadbeat,
Parry Music,
Arthur Verocai,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lalann,
Yazoo,
Darondo,
Quadrant,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boz Scaggs,
Procol Harum,
Tubeway Army,
Sixth Finger,
The Names,
Lightning Bolt,
Black Moon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.