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 Hungary and from Toronto.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the punk 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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Deadbeat,
The Doors,
D'Angelo,
R.M.O.,
Kurtis Blow,
Country Teasers,
Qualms,
Ten City,
Michelle Simonal,
Fad Gadget,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eden Ahbez,
Marcia Griffiths,
10cc,
Stiv Bators,
Rhythm & Sound,
CMW,
Reagan Youth,
Cybotron,
John Holt,
Hardrive,
Bad Manners,
Drexciya,
Surgeon,
The Durutti Column,
Dave Gahan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
David Bowie,
The Last Poets,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ultravox,
Tom Boy,
The Black Dice,
Hashim,
Boz Scaggs,
Shoche,
The Leaves,
K-Klass,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sex Pistols,
Ohio Players,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bluetip,
Darondo,
Amon Düül II,
Delta 5,
The Martian,
Derrick May,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Dirtbombs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
T. Rex,
LL Cool J,
Scott Walker,
The Gap Band,
The Angels of Light,
Gil Scott Heron,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.