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 Togo and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rod Modell to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
David Bowie,
Soft Machine,
Section 25,
The Velvet Underground,
Qualms,
The Modern Lovers,
Public Enemy,
Sun City Girls,
Amon Düül,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gastr Del Sol,
Niagra,
Tim Buckley,
The United States of America,
F. McDonald,
Cybotron,
Ten City,
Popol Vuh,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
New Age Steppers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Surgeon,
Hot Snakes,
Althea and Donna,
Suicide,
The Fortunes,
Crispy Ambulance,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Intrusion,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Birthday Party,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Al Stewart,
Depeche Mode,
The Names,
Stiv Bators,
Livin' Joy,
Traffic Nightmare,
Radiohead,
Steve Hackett,
Joe Finger,
Joey Negro,
Second Layer,
Bronski Beat,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Porter Ricks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Grandmaster Flash,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Skriet,
The Monochrome Set,
Sixth Finger,
The Pretty Things,
Judy Mowatt,
Leonard Cohen,
the Association,
Minny Pops,
Simply Red,
Underground Resistance,
Tres Demented,
Whodini, Whodini, Whodini, Whodini.
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.