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 United Kingdom and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Jandek to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
The Neon Judgement,
The Young Rascals,
X-102,
Sam Rivers,
Andrew Hill,
Sixth Finger,
The Moleskins,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Echospace,
Lalo Schifrin,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Nik Kershaw,
Von Mondo,
The Trojans,
Simply Red,
DJ Sneak,
Lightning Bolt,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ronnie Foster,
Cymande,
Soft Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pet Shop Boys,
Matthew Bourne,
Supertramp,
Das Ding,
Eddi Front,
The Standells,
Traffic Nightmare,
Johnny Clarke,
the Swans,
Second Layer,
Tubeway Army,
Flamin' Groovies,
D'Angelo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Organ,
Gong,
Faust,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Schoolly D,
The Birthday Party,
Pierre Henry,
Au Pairs,
Freddie Wadling,
Suicide,
Delon & Dalcan,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scrapy,
Jacob Miller,
the Human League,
The Evens,
Audionom,
Maurizio,
The Victims,
Danielle Patucci,
Laurel Aitken,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Harmonia,
Kas Product,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.