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 Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Cameo to the grime 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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joyce Sims,
Jerry's Kids,
Moby Grape,
Harpers Bizarre,
Freddie Wadling,
Glambeats Corp.,
LL Cool J,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Gap Band,
Lyres,
Circle Jerks,
Masters at Work,
Metal Thangz,
Matthew Halsall,
Electric Prunes,
Clear Light,
Eddi Front,
Depeche Mode,
Pole,
The Last Poets,
Country Teasers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Surgeon,
Lightning Bolt,
Ossler,
Dead Boys,
Second Layer,
Cal Tjader,
Bronski Beat,
Duran Duran,
Quadrant,
Mars,
Throbbing Gristle,
Zero Boys,
Visage,
Oneida,
The Music Machine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
These Immortal Souls,
The Seeds,
Darondo,
The Raincoats,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dark Day,
John Foxx,
Glenn Branca,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Janne Schatter,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Suicide,
John Holt,
L. Decosne,
One Last Wish,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Pop Group,
Fear,
David Axelrod,
Roxette,
Monks,
Bill Near,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Arab on Radar,
Charles Mingus,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.