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 Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba 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 Scrapy to the techno 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 Maurizio. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Howard Jones,
Alison Limerick,
DNA,
Desert Stars,
Hoover,
The Moody Blues,
Popol Vuh,
the Normal,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Little Man,
E-Dancer,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Velvet Underground,
Nils Olav,
Wasted Youth,
Radiohead,
Ludus,
Negative Approach,
The Techniques,
Graham Central Station,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wire,
Clear Light,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Standells,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sällskapet,
Model 500,
Thompson Twins,
Stiv Bators,
the Association,
10cc,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Fuzztones,
Tomorrow,
Moss Icon,
X-102,
Pantaleimon,
The Alarm Clocks,
Todd Terry,
The Gap Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New York Dolls,
Albert Ayler,
Joe Finger,
Basic Channel,
Animal Collective,
Fad Gadget,
Funkadelic,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Monks,
The Happenings,
The Invisible,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lou Christie,
The Gories,
Q and Not U,
Roxette,
the Swans,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Radiopuhelimet,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.