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 Kenya and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 mellotron 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 David McCallum to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Stooges. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rakim,
Gang Green,
Anakelly,
Massinfluence,
Royal Trux,
Derrick Morgan,
The American Breed,
Isaac Hayes,
Sonic Youth,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tommy Roe,
Bang On A Can,
Angry Samoans,
Sarah Menescal,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Mojo Men,
The Stooges,
Avey Tare,
La Düsseldorf,
Peter & Gordon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Charles Mingus,
Supertramp,
Visage,
David McCallum,
The Martian,
Ossler,
The Black Dice,
Gil Scott Heron,
Agitation Free,
Negative Approach,
Rotary Connection,
The Gun Club,
Icehouse,
Kayak,
Livin' Joy,
Average White Band,
Swans,
Pantytec,
Adolescents,
Ponytail,
Peter and Kerry,
Sparks,
Matthew Halsall,
B.T. Express,
Yusef Lateef,
The Modern Lovers,
X-Ray Spex,
Con Funk Shun,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Minnie Riperton,
Sandy B,
Pole,
Fatback Band,
Laurel Aitken,
Mad Mike,
The Mummies,
The Beau Brummels,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Remains,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dorothy Ashby,
Panda Bear,
Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters, Stockholm Monsters.
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.