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 El Salvador and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell to the crunk 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 Can. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Ultravox,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eric Copeland,
Simply Red,
The Durutti Column,
Anakelly,
a-ha,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Wake,
Circle Jerks,
B.T. Express,
Piero Umiliani,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Trojans,
Adolescents,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gil Scott Heron,
Youth Brigade,
Deepchord,
Prince Buster,
One Last Wish,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sexual Harrassment,
DJ Style,
Todd Terry,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Motions,
Das Ding,
Vainqueur,
L. Decosne,
The Fuzztones,
The Blues Magoos,
The Gladiators,
Yaz,
Davy DMX,
Man Parrish,
Mark Hollis,
Josef K,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Boogie Down Productions,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eric Dolphy,
Bootsy Collins,
Popol Vuh,
Brand Nubian,
The Residents,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cymande,
Faraquet,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Brick,
Negative Approach,
Joe Finger,
the Swans,
Tears for Fears,
Jacob Miller,
David McCallum,
Bill Near,
Charles Mingus,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.