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 Croatia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bill Near to the funk 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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suburban Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Section 25 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Masters at Work,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gabor Szabo,
Guru Guru,
Sarah Menescal,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lou Christie,
Supertramp,
Audionom,
Boogie Down Productions,
Minutemen,
The Slackers,
The Monochrome Set,
Lucky Dragons,
Loose Ends,
Kas Product,
Steve Hackett,
Soul II Soul,
ABC,
Aural Exciters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sexual Harrassment,
Wings,
The Gun Club,
Agent Orange,
Lungfish,
Sound Behaviour,
Lightning Bolt,
Hoover,
Panda Bear,
Simply Red,
Albert Ayler,
Spoonie Gee,
U.S. Maple,
Excepter,
L. Decosne,
Slave,
The Walker Brothers,
Roger Hodgson,
Blancmange,
Marc Almond,
Goldenarms,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Grey Daturas,
Tommy Roe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Peter & Gordon,
The Sonics,
Unrelated Segments,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dark Day,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Fortunes,
Johnny Clarke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Essential Logic,
Rapeman,
Boredoms,
the Germs, the Germs, the Germs, the Germs.
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.