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 Congo and from Mumbai.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Jimmy McGriff. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Todd Terry,
Porter Ricks,
Gichy Dan,
Adolescents,
The Fall,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gang Green,
Deakin,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
DJ Sneak,
Little Man,
Scratch Acid,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Cal Tjader,
Hasil Adkins,
David Bowie,
R.M.O.,
Boredoms,
Sonic Youth,
Scion,
Albert Ayler,
Suicide,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ludus,
Underground Resistance,
Mo-Dettes,
Maleditus Sound,
The Gladiators,
Angry Samoans,
The Beau Brummels,
Infiniti,
Flipper,
Lee Hazlewood,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
JFA,
Joy Division,
The Velvet Underground,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jacob Miller,
Deepchord,
Roger Hodgson,
Bill Near,
Japan,
The Happenings,
Unrelated Segments,
The Angels of Light,
Bizarre Inc.,
Peter and Kerry,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pere Ubu,
Rakim,
The Kinks,
Avey Tare,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.