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 Estonia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alice Coltrane 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?
Adolescents,
Organ,
Dual Sessions,
Gang Starr,
Interpol,
The Stooges,
DNA,
Pierre Henry,
Magma,
Pantaleimon,
Kenny Larkin,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Althea and Donna,
Reuben Wilson,
Tubeway Army,
Leonard Cohen,
Aswad,
Soul Sonic Force,
Blake Baxter,
Public Enemy,
John Foxx,
The Remains,
Tommy Roe,
Cecil Taylor,
The Mummies,
the Swans,
Qualms,
The Music Machine,
Marc Almond,
The Fugs,
Boogie Down Productions,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dave Gahan,
Infiniti,
Hot Snakes,
Siglo XX,
Pulsallama,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rod Modell,
Eurythmics,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
New Age Steppers,
Rosa Yemen,
The Divine Comedy,
Johnny Clarke,
the Association,
Hoover,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Buzzcocks,
The Toasters,
The Count Five,
Guru Guru,
Crispy Ambulance,
Supertramp,
Oneida,
Audionom,
Echospace,
Marvin Gaye,
Isaac Hayes,
Gregory Isaacs,
Whodini,
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.