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 Lithuania and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the 808 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Moleskins. All the underground hits.
All In Retrospect tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub 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?
Yusef Lateef,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Crispy Ambulance,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Nico,
Icehouse,
10cc,
Donny Hathaway,
Dave Gahan,
MDC,
Marvin Gaye,
Juan Atkins,
Lalann,
X-101,
Urselle,
China Crisis,
Eden Ahbez,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Kenny Larkin,
The Gladiators,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Chrome,
Joe Smooth,
The Grass Roots,
Television Personalities,
Clear Light,
The Smiths,
Yazoo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
T. Rex,
Black Flag,
Spoonie Gee,
Angry Samoans,
Organ,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Gap Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Yaz,
Sarah Menescal,
Goldenarms,
Sex Pistols,
Soulsonic Force,
UT,
Bobby Sherman,
Sonic Youth,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Alarm Clocks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
James White and The Blacks,
Harmonia,
Deakin,
Ice-T,
Radiohead,
Arcadia,
Fat Boys,
Brass Construction,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd, Bobby Byrd.
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.