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 Kiribati and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 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 Au Pairs to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 theremin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yaz,
Sällskapet,
The Misunderstood,
Accadde A,
Flash Fearless,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Robert Hood,
The Remains,
The Sound,
The Gladiators,
The Music Machine,
Skarface,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Talk Talk,
Scion,
Gang Green,
Vladislav Delay,
Flamin' Groovies,
Masters at Work,
China Crisis,
Minutemen,
Bang On A Can,
Brick,
The Neon Judgement,
Roxy Music,
Zero Boys,
Kool Moe Dee,
L. Decosne,
Patti Smith,
Underground Resistance,
Pagans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eden Ahbez,
Joe Finger,
Fear,
the Slits,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Peter & Gordon,
Saccharine Trust,
Ultimate Spinach,
Faraquet,
Girls At Our Best!,
Outsiders,
Kenny Larkin,
The Moleskins,
Ultravox,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Electric Prunes,
Metal Thangz,
The Trojans,
Alice Coltrane,
T.S.O.L.,
Siglo XX,
Throbbing Gristle,
Moebius,
The Doobie Brothers,
OOIOO,
Bobby Sherman,
Tubeway Army,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.