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 Lebanon and from Copenhagen.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Eric Dolphy to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica 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 funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
Moss Icon,
Godley & Creme,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scan 7,
Hasil Adkins,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lou Reed,
Laurel Aitken,
L. Decosne,
Swell Maps,
Cheater Slicks,
Byron Stingily,
Scrapy,
Ituana,
The Smoke,
The Skatalites,
Minor Threat,
Masters at Work,
Marcia Griffiths,
10cc,
Sandy B,
Leonard Cohen,
Grandmaster Flash,
Audionom,
Joe Finger,
Sparks,
Vainqueur,
Colin Newman,
John Lydon,
The Fire Engines,
Index,
Ice-T,
Rekid,
Todd Rundgren,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The American Breed,
New York Dolls,
Vladislav Delay,
Flipper,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Amon Düül,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bad Manners,
The Smiths,
Tres Demented,
Das Ding,
Deakin,
Stiv Bators,
The Moleskins,
John Foxx,
Qualms,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Steve Hackett,
Crash Course in Science,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Albert Ayler,
Blancmange,
R.M.O.,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.