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 Afghanistan and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Marc Almond to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eric B and Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Pulsallama,
Lucky Dragons,
Charles Mingus,
Judy Mowatt,
Flash Fearless,
Bang On A Can,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rufus Thomas,
Sound Behaviour,
Harmonia,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Darondo,
The Seeds,
Matthew Bourne,
Wings,
Ultra Naté,
R.M.O.,
The Invisible,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pole,
Jeff Lynne,
Piero Umiliani,
Glambeats Corp.,
Wire,
Cameo,
Young Marble Giants,
The Raincoats,
Public Image Ltd.,
Agitation Free,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Halsall,
Zero Boys,
Scratch Acid,
These Immortal Souls,
The Dead C,
The Star Department,
Gang Starr,
the Human League,
Kerrie Biddell,
Liliput,
Sun Ra,
Man Parrish,
The Move,
Carl Craig,
Sonic Youth,
Brick,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Associates,
Organ,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Nick Fraelich,
Michelle Simonal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Techniques,
Avey Tare,
Gichy Dan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Moon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.