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 Guatemala and from Calgary.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Barry Ungar to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
The Human League,
Dual Sessions,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ohio Players,
Grey Daturas,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Public Image Ltd.,
Warren Ellis,
Gang Starr,
Tomorrow,
The New Christs,
Johnny Clarke,
Smog,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Radiopuhelimet,
LL Cool J,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Reuben Wilson,
Bobby Byrd,
Anakelly,
The Mummies,
FM Einheit,
Wire,
Eden Ahbez,
David Bowie,
Neil Young,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Slave,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hot Snakes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Minny Pops,
Man Parrish,
Arthur Verocai,
This Heat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Faust,
ABBA,
Nick Fraelich,
Blossom Toes,
The Skatalites,
Marcia Griffiths,
Minor Threat,
The Busters,
cv313,
OOIOO,
The Monochrome Set,
Rhythm & Sound,
Deadbeat,
Unwound,
A Certain Ratio,
Bronski Beat,
Section 25,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Mandrill,
The Gladiators,
Donald Byrd,
Leonard Cohen,
Cybotron,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.