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 Sudan and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes 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 Deakin to the rock 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 Lightning Bolt. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Banda Bassotti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Negative Approach,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
OOIOO,
Sister Nancy,
Kerri Chandler,
A Certain Ratio,
Joy Division,
Dual Sessions,
The Cowsills,
Babytalk,
Rufus Thomas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Electric Prunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Michelle Simonal,
Jawbox,
The Divine Comedy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nation of Ulysses,
Trumans Water,
Goldenarms,
Popol Vuh,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Moss Icon,
Con Funk Shun,
Von Mondo,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Seeds,
Aaron Thompson,
Dorothy Ashby,
Cheater Slicks,
Joey Negro,
Tommy Roe,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Black Flag,
Newcleus,
Cymande,
E-Dancer,
Rosa Yemen,
Circle Jerks,
Stetsasonic,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rites of Spring,
the Soft Cell,
New Order,
Sonic Youth,
Eddi Front,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Normal,
Section 25,
This Heat,
Marcia Griffiths,
Hashim,
The Martian,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Star Department,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Eric B and Rakim,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.