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 Mauritania and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Fall to the crunk 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Crispian St. Peters,
Chris Corsano,
U.S. Maple,
DJ Sneak,
The Happenings,
Reagan Youth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Visage,
Bobby Womack,
Model 500,
The Five Americans,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Donald Byrd,
Dennis Brown,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bronski Beat,
Little Man,
Lindisfarne,
Moss Icon,
Barclay James Harvest,
Faust,
Amazonics,
Urselle,
the Human League,
Swans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Animal Collective,
Ice-T,
Grey Daturas,
Funky Four + One,
Negative Approach,
Zero Boys,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jerry's Kids,
The Fire Engines,
Interpol,
The Motions,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ohio Players,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Young Rascals,
Ludus,
Al Stewart,
The Black Dice,
This Heat,
Althea and Donna,
The Golliwogs,
Arcadia,
The Techniques,
Radiohead,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
AZ,
Crime,
Max Romeo,
Erasure,
Minny Pops,
Marine Girls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding.
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.