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 Paraguay and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Lungfish to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gabor Szabo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Traffic Nightmare,
Japan,
Steve Hackett,
The Names,
Brass Construction,
Ossler,
The Skatalites,
Audionom,
The Angels of Light,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Johnny Clarke,
Country Teasers,
Angry Samoans,
Minutemen,
Shoche,
Mo-Dettes,
Lucky Dragons,
ABC,
Duran Duran,
Cluster,
Warsaw,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jerry's Kids,
Lalann,
8 Eyed Spy,
X-102,
The Count Five,
The Martian,
Soft Machine,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Residents,
The Kinks,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Remains,
Roxy Music,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Skarface,
Isaac Hayes,
The Selecter,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Henry Cow,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Crash Course in Science,
Deadbeat,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Derrick May,
Josef K,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scion,
The Mojo Men,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Soul II Soul,
Gregory Isaacs,
Adolescents,
Anthony Braxton,
Marcia Griffiths,
James White and The Blacks,
John Coltrane,
The Monks,
Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.
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.