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 Kosovo and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 guitar 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 Rotary Connection to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Doobie Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Scrapy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every R.M.O. 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Soul Sonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
Sun Ra,
Gastr Del Sol,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Saints,
Groovy Waters,
Lower 48,
Funky Four + One,
Eric Copeland,
Rufus Thomas,
The Remains,
The Durutti Column,
The Slackers,
Audionom,
Reuben Wilson,
The Buckinghams,
The New Christs,
The Golliwogs,
Sun City Girls,
Echospace,
Electric Prunes,
Slick Rick,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Neu!,
The Sonics,
Lindisfarne,
Qualms,
Soulsonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Clear Light,
CMW,
Lalann,
Jacob Miller,
Maurizio,
Circle Jerks,
Brick,
Dave Gahan,
Negative Approach,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gabor Szabo,
Gregory Isaacs,
T.S.O.L.,
The Birthday Party,
Dead Boys,
Gong,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Steve Hackett,
Piero Umiliani,
Bauhaus,
The Invisible,
Bad Manners,
Mary Jane Girls,
Agitation Free,
Faraquet,
The Fortunes,
Deadbeat,
Schoolly D,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oblivians,
Altered Images, Altered Images, Altered Images, Altered Images.
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.