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 Mali and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the electroclash 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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eyeless In Gaza 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Faraquet,
Anthony Braxton,
Warsaw,
Scratch Acid,
Brass Construction,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Urselle,
the Association,
Laurel Aitken,
Amon Düül,
the Slits,
The Human League,
Moss Icon,
Wally Richardson,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Youth Brigade,
Mars,
Pierre Henry,
Suburban Knight,
Niagra,
New York Dolls,
Prince Buster,
Blake Baxter,
Con Funk Shun,
Visage,
Hasil Adkins,
Black Sheep,
Malaria!,
Colin Newman,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang Starr,
The Blues Magoos,
The Slackers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kool Moe Dee,
China Crisis,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
E-Dancer,
Lightning Bolt,
Lungfish,
ABC,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
U.S. Maple,
Roxy Music,
Robert Hood,
Kerrie Biddell,
David Bowie,
Model 500,
Procol Harum,
T.S.O.L.,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Leonard Cohen,
Bronski Beat,
Duran Duran,
Soulsonic Force,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nas,
Quando Quango,
Aaron Thompson,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.