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 United States and from London.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 X-101 to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Richard Hell and the Voidoids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
E-Dancer,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hoover,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Litter,
June of 44,
Grandmaster Flash,
Zero Boys,
Rhythm & Sound,
Fear,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yusef Lateef,
Mission of Burma,
The Walker Brothers,
New Order,
Fugazi,
Henry Cow,
Lou Christie,
The Moleskins,
Johnny Clarke,
David Bowie,
Crime,
The Standells,
The Seeds,
Lyres,
Crispian St. Peters,
Michelle Simonal,
The Neon Judgement,
The Grass Roots,
The Slits,
Sam Rivers,
Pole,
Gastr Del Sol,
Essential Logic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
KRS-One,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Schoolly D,
The Divine Comedy,
Erasure,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Tubeway Army,
The Sonics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camberwell Now,
Ronan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Wings,
Darondo,
Albert Ayler,
Glenn Branca,
The Smiths,
Maleditus Sound,
Archie Shepp,
Ludus,
Terrestrial Tones,
Easy Going,
Ultra Naté,
Cymande,
Excepter,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.