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 Slovakia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 synthesizer 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 Intrusion to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maurizio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
The Skatalites,
Hot Snakes,
The Star Department,
Rhythm & Sound,
Soft Cell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Mad Mike,
Niagra,
Main Source,
X-102,
Radiohead,
Subhumans,
Maurizio,
Amon Düül II,
The Saints,
Sun City Girls,
The Electric Prunes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Albert Ayler,
Theoretical Girls,
T. Rex,
Peter & Gordon,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Standells,
Simply Red,
The Selecter,
Piero Umiliani,
Lindisfarne,
Gong,
Electric Prunes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Trojans,
Little Man,
Babytalk,
Marcia Griffiths,
Maleditus Sound,
Erykah Badu,
Pulsallama,
Heaven 17,
Flamin' Groovies,
Alton Ellis,
Glambeats Corp.,
DNA,
The New Christs,
Blake Baxter,
Rapeman,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Patti Smith,
The Five Americans,
Jacob Miller,
the Swans,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lightning Bolt,
Tears for Fears,
The Slits,
Basic Channel,
Gregory Isaacs,
Make Up,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.