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 Malaysia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Vogues to the electroclash 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 The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Sound Behaviour,
MC5,
Reuben Wilson,
Donald Byrd,
Easy Going,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Knickerbockers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gabor Szabo,
Chrome,
Thompson Twins,
Donny Hathaway,
Brand Nubian,
Man Parrish,
Ituana,
Arthur Verocai,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Robert Hood,
Rekid,
Davy DMX,
Wire,
kango's stein massive,
T. Rex,
Sun City Girls,
a-ha,
Tim Buckley,
This Heat,
Roxette,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Human League,
Kerri Chandler,
Piero Umiliani,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Loose Ends,
Pulsallama,
Public Image Ltd.,
Archie Shepp,
Wings,
Delon & Dalcan,
Black Moon,
T.S.O.L.,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rhythm & Sound,
Adolescents,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
B.T. Express,
The Barracudas,
Banda Bassotti,
Don Cherry,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Oblivians,
X-Ray Spex,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Fuzztones,
Robert Görl,
UT,
Hoover,
The Electric Prunes,
Popol Vuh,
Basic Channel,
Swans, Swans, Swans, Swans.
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.