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 Tanzania and from Lagos.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Peter and Kerry to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Parry Music. All the underground hits.
All Man Eating Sloth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Vogues,
Aaron Thompson,
Robert Hood,
Japan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Oneida,
Gong,
Rod Modell,
Deepchord,
Man Eating Sloth,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bad Manners,
The Move,
Flash Fearless,
Hot Snakes,
Jerry's Kids,
Maurizio,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Vainqueur,
Lower 48,
E-Dancer,
Nico,
Main Source,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roxy Music,
Graham Central Station,
The Sonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lakeside,
Pierre Henry,
Urselle,
Davy DMX,
Crooked Eye,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sound Behaviour,
Monks,
The Busters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kool Moe Dee,
Marine Girls,
Kenny Larkin,
Dual Sessions,
Darondo,
The Shadows of Knight,
FM Einheit,
Peter & Gordon,
The Slits,
Y Pants,
The Flesh Eaters,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Organ,
Spoonie Gee,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Amon Düül,
Soft Cell,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rapeman,
Idris Muhammad,
Magazine,
Tubeway Army,
Tommy Roe,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.