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 Cuba and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 808 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 The Mojo Men to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Second Layer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Moss Icon,
Infiniti,
Von Mondo,
The American Breed,
OOIOO,
Soulsonic Force,
Agitation Free,
Sister Nancy,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Dave Gahan,
Bronski Beat,
Nick Fraelich,
Basic Channel,
Josef K,
Spandau Ballet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rakim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Leonard Cohen,
Ludus,
The Victims,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dark Day,
The Misunderstood,
Q65,
8 Eyed Spy,
Hashim,
The Monks,
Tears for Fears,
Surgeon,
Wire,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jerry's Kids,
New Order,
Sexual Harrassment,
Nils Olav,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Buckinghams,
Khruangbin,
X-Ray Spex,
The Detroit Cobras,
Deakin,
In Retrospect,
The Doobie Brothers,
Altered Images,
Newcleus,
Eden Ahbez,
Tom Boy,
Godley & Creme,
Bill Wells,
The Associates,
Derrick Morgan,
Camberwell Now,
DNA, DNA, DNA, DNA.
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.