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 Ecuador and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Accra.
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 spring reverb 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kayak,
PIL,
Charles Mingus,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Accadde A,
Organ,
Al Stewart,
The Modern Lovers,
Jandek,
Supertramp,
Stiv Bators,
Television,
The Saints,
Kerri Chandler,
Camouflage,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rufus Thomas,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Gories,
Hot Snakes,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Monks,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Silicon Teens,
the Swans,
Isaac Hayes,
X-Ray Spex,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marshall Jefferson,
Zapp,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lyres,
Second Layer,
John Cale,
Grey Daturas,
The Toasters,
Eli Mardock,
Colin Newman,
Khruangbin,
Echospace,
Young Marble Giants,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Babytalk,
cv313,
8 Eyed Spy,
Chrome,
Bootsy Collins,
Oneida,
Severed Heads,
Nico,
Matthew Bourne,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Gap Band,
Arab on Radar,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Brothers Johnson,
Rites of Spring,
The Mummies,
Sex Pistols,
Bang On A Can,
JFA,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.