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 Benin 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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro 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 Sister Nancy to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Trumans Water,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rakim,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Procol Harum,
Desert Stars,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Essential Logic,
Lindisfarne,
Anakelly,
The Gun Club,
Donny Hathaway,
Bush Tetras,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bootsy Collins,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sugar Minott,
Dennis Brown,
New Order,
The Fuzztones,
Rhythm & Sound,
Tom Boy,
Black Pus,
Nils Olav,
Yusef Lateef,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Grass Roots,
Sandy B,
Ronan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Soft Cell,
the Normal,
Dual Sessions,
Jerry's Kids,
Organ,
The Slackers,
Amon Düül,
Fad Gadget,
Mark Hollis,
Spoonie Gee,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pole,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Pretty Things,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Red Krayola,
The Index,
New Age Steppers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Warsaw,
Scrapy,
Model 500,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Chrome,
Junior Murvin,
Harmonia,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lightning Bolt,
Warren Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.