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 Italy and from Columbus.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 John Cale to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
The Associates,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Steve Hackett,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Selecter,
Prince Buster,
Erasure,
Leonard Cohen,
Easy Going,
FM Einheit,
Sonic Youth,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dave Gahan,
Jerry's Kids,
Nico,
Scratch Acid,
Infiniti,
Robert Hood,
Throbbing Gristle,
Siglo XX,
Hoover,
Zero Boys,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Electric Prunes,
Organ,
the Bar-Kays,
The Pretty Things,
Arthur Verocai,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Popol Vuh,
Yellowson,
Idris Muhammad,
Technova,
The Names,
Y Pants,
the Germs,
Stiv Bators,
The Knickerbockers,
The Black Dice,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Buckinghams,
John Cale,
Crooked Eye,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gang Starr,
The J.B.'s,
Amon Düül II,
Derrick Morgan,
Average White Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ultravox,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Intrusion,
Aswad,
Brand Nubian,
Lightning Bolt,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.