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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Knickerbockers to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Standells. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June of 44,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ludus,
DJ Sneak,
Tres Demented,
Qualms,
The Mighty Diamonds,
EPMD,
Amon Düül,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Leaves,
Quadrant,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nick Fraelich,
Pantytec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lucky Dragons,
The Cowsills,
The Birthday Party,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rosa Yemen,
Amon Düül II,
Eve St. Jones,
Flash Fearless,
Minnie Riperton,
Ultravox,
Heaven 17,
John Cale,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gladiators,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Dave Clark Five,
Erykah Badu,
Pet Shop Boys,
These Immortal Souls,
Essential Logic,
Hoover,
Boredoms,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Fuzztones,
Man Eating Sloth,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Albert Ayler,
Blake Baxter,
Joy Division,
Josef K,
Judy Mowatt,
Black Flag,
Faraquet,
Peter & Gordon,
The Invisible,
Minny Pops,
Cheater Slicks,
Bill Near,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
48th St. Collective,
Bluetip,
Ultimate Spinach,
MC5,
Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day, Dark Day.
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.