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 Liechtenstein and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Seoul.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Toasters. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Spoonie Gee,
DJ Style,
The Doors,
The Fuzztones,
Barclay James Harvest,
Unwound,
Fugazi,
Maleditus Sound,
Severed Heads,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Thee Headcoats,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wings,
Joy Division,
The Neon Judgement,
Lungfish,
John Coltrane,
David McCallum,
The Remains,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Prince Buster,
Connie Case,
Can,
Jawbox,
These Immortal Souls,
Popol Vuh,
Scion,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cybotron,
Motorama,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Skatalites,
Lightning Bolt,
Flamin' Groovies,
Underground Resistance,
The Index,
Lyres,
Letta Mbulu,
the Human League,
Aswad,
Animal Collective,
Maurizio,
Derrick May,
Bizarre Inc.,
LL Cool J,
Dave Gahan,
Electric Prunes,
David Bowie,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Harpers Bizarre,
Hot Snakes,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Bar-Kays,
Echospace,
Deepchord,
The Searchers,
Shoche,
Silicon Teens,
Thompson Twins,
Schoolly D,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
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.