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 Andorra and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 oboe 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 Main Source to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Art Ensemble Of Chicago tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Coltrane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Charles Mingus,
Animal Collective,
LL Cool J,
The Gap Band,
Stereo Dub,
Agitation Free,
Sandy B,
The Buckinghams,
Warren Ellis,
Mary Jane Girls,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Skriet,
Sparks,
Lightning Bolt,
The Tremeloes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June of 44,
Icehouse,
The Barracudas,
Nirvana,
Aural Exciters,
Gang Green,
Jeff Mills,
Davy DMX,
The Smiths,
Suicide,
Arab on Radar,
JFA,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Graham Central Station,
The Saints,
Bobby Byrd,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Simply Red,
Con Funk Shun,
Khruangbin,
Delta 5,
The Sound,
Lakeside,
the Soft Cell,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Happenings,
Spoonie Gee,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Lou Christie,
Inner City,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The American Breed,
Tim Buckley,
Interpol,
Soft Machine,
Youth Brigade,
The Angels of Light,
Bizarre Inc.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funky Four + One,
X-Ray Spex,
Joy Division,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.