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 Korea South and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Donald Fagen 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 grunge 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Black Dice,
The Divine Comedy,
Surgeon,
Swans,
Underground Resistance,
Clear Light,
Erykah Badu,
Max Romeo,
Ronan,
Cybotron,
John Cale,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Arab on Radar,
June Days,
Can,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Josef K,
the Fania All-Stars,
Warsaw,
Q and Not U,
Scan 7,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Zeros,
H. Thieme,
Animal Collective,
Joey Negro,
Rotary Connection,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The United States of America,
Mission of Burma,
Kaleidoscope,
Peter and Kerry,
F. McDonald,
Howard Jones,
The Offenders,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bill Wells,
Vladislav Delay,
Barrington Levy,
Lucky Dragons,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Hoover,
UT,
The Busters,
Carl Craig,
Dennis Brown,
The Selecter,
Yazoo,
Severed Heads,
Unwound,
The Red Krayola,
Quando Quango,
The Cramps,
The Associates,
Jeff Mills,
Todd Terry,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme.
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.