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 Cape Verde and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Flamin' Groovies to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Underground Resistance,
Reagan Youth,
The Moleskins,
Babytalk,
Dawn Penn,
Basic Channel,
Godley & Creme,
The Fortunes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Smog,
Gichy Dan,
Technova,
Crime,
Kurtis Blow,
Warsaw,
Quadrant,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lakeside,
The Sound,
The Cramps,
Robert Görl,
Sugar Minott,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pierre Henry,
The Durutti Column,
Maurizio,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Brick,
Visage,
Icehouse,
Wally Richardson,
Derrick Morgan,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Moby Grape,
Quantec,
Joy Division,
The Count Five,
Slave,
Qualms,
Hasil Adkins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tomorrow,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
June of 44,
Y Pants,
Magma,
Suicide,
The Fall,
Swell Maps,
Nik Kershaw,
Deadbeat,
Alphaville,
The Seeds,
Agitation Free,
Monks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Amazonics,
Soft Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.