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 Uzbekistan and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 sitar 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 Deepchord to the rock 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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Star Department,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Roxette,
Byron Stingily,
Marcia Griffiths,
Porter Ricks,
La Düsseldorf,
Eli Mardock,
Flash Fearless,
Michelle Simonal,
Magazine,
Joe Smooth,
Arab on Radar,
Boogie Down Productions,
Roger Hodgson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bluetip,
Ronnie Foster,
Jeff Lynne,
Gang of Four,
Blossom Toes,
Eden Ahbez,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Ten City,
Fad Gadget,
Schoolly D,
Derrick May,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lightning Bolt,
Gabor Szabo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Raincoats,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Cramps,
Bad Manners,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Camberwell Now,
The Fire Engines,
Black Moon,
Mr. Review,
Qualms,
Radiohead,
Leonard Cohen,
Tom Boy,
Stiv Bators,
Lower 48,
Pierre Henry,
Alton Ellis,
Quando Quango,
Rakim,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Index,
Mo-Dettes,
X-Ray Spex,
Rotary Connection,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DNA,
Scott Walker,
Soft Machine,
The Dave Clark Five,
Arthur Verocai,
Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy.
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.