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 Brazil and from Salvador.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Dead C to the grunge 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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Carl Craig,
Surgeon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Swans,
Ultravox,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pagans,
Erasure,
Derrick May,
Royal Trux,
Albert Ayler,
Piero Umiliani,
Gang Green,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sam Rivers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Michelle Simonal,
Gichy Dan,
The Sonics,
Loose Ends,
Lalann,
The Sound,
Silicon Teens,
Bob Dylan,
Jacques Brel,
ABC,
The Zeros,
Soft Machine,
Suburban Knight,
Graham Central Station,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kayak,
Marine Girls,
Curtis Mayfield,
X-101,
Cybotron,
Aural Exciters,
Basic Channel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rakim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Subhumans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Evens,
Livin' Joy,
ABBA,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Searchers,
Bootsy Collins,
Deepchord,
Ossler,
Althea and Donna,
Flash Fearless,
Soul II Soul,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Index,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.