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 Panama and from Mexico City.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Yellowson to the dance 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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal 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?
T.S.O.L.,
Sound Behaviour,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Piero Umiliani,
June Days,
Fat Boys,
Vainqueur,
PIL,
The Fuzztones,
Eric Copeland,
Rosa Yemen,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Black Sheep,
Skaos,
Sex Pistols,
Big Daddy Kane,
MDC,
June of 44,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jerry's Kids,
Sun Ra,
Tomorrow,
Donald Byrd,
The Gladiators,
Nik Kershaw,
Roxy Music,
The Toasters,
Jawbox,
Barry Ungar,
DJ Sneak,
Circle Jerks,
Subhumans,
Hoover,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Five Americans,
The Litter,
The Stooges,
Throbbing Gristle,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Colin Newman,
Kaleidoscope,
Reuben Wilson,
Sam Rivers,
T. Rex,
Soulsonic Force,
Morten Harket,
The Mummies,
Radiohead,
Black Moon,
Donny Hathaway,
Marvin Gaye,
Can,
Brick,
Yellowson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Derrick Morgan,
Amon Düül II,
The Cowsills,
Aloha Tigers,
Spoonie Gee,
Pulsallama,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.