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 Peru 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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Joe Finger to the rap 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wolf Eyes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Eric Copeland,
The Knickerbockers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Derrick Morgan,
The Misunderstood,
Niagra,
Silicon Teens,
Bootsy Collins,
X-101,
Nick Fraelich,
World's Most,
Jacques Brel,
Connie Case,
Rosa Yemen,
Fear,
Fad Gadget,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mark Hollis,
Deepchord,
The Zeros,
The Fall,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Harpers Bizarre,
Main Source,
Boz Scaggs,
The Five Americans,
Swans,
The Tremeloes,
Technova,
Schoolly D,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Selecter,
UT,
The Count Five,
Sun City Girls,
Model 500,
Mission of Burma,
Tears for Fears,
Iggy Pop,
Flash Fearless,
Japan,
Cybotron,
Ken Boothe,
Pussy Galore,
Vladislav Delay,
The Black Dice,
H. Thieme,
Bizarre Inc.,
Juan Atkins,
China Crisis,
The American Breed,
Althea and Donna,
Skriet,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Faraquet,
Suburban Knight,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Alice Coltrane,
Smog,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.