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 Thailand and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Bizarre Inc. to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Suburban Knight,
The Victims,
the Fania All-Stars,
Marine Girls,
Clear Light,
Marc Almond,
The Count Five,
Sight & Sound,
Altered Images,
Joe Finger,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Birthday Party,
Donny Hathaway,
Section 25,
KRS-One,
The Real Kids,
Chris Corsano,
Ronnie Foster,
The Sonics,
Max Romeo,
Mantronix,
Television,
The Slackers,
Schoolly D,
Babytalk,
Man Parrish,
New Order,
Reagan Youth,
Gil Scott Heron,
Amazonics,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Cure,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Neil Young,
Second Layer,
The Neon Judgement,
Subhumans,
Spoonie Gee,
Dead Boys,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ice-T,
Flamin' Groovies,
Icehouse,
Jeff Lynne,
This Heat,
Electric Prunes,
Rotary Connection,
Minny Pops,
A Certain Ratio,
Mo-Dettes,
The Mojo Men,
The Tremeloes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Magma,
Dual Sessions,
Minnie Riperton,
Joy Division,
Q65,
Lindisfarne,
Dorothy Ashby,
Scion,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.