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 Niger and from Glasgow.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Essential Logic to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Monks,
Soft Cell,
Avey Tare,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Youth Brigade,
Model 500,
The Fall,
Main Source,
Alison Limerick,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Fugazi,
Laurel Aitken,
Section 25,
Gang Starr,
Bob Dylan,
Television,
Brand Nubian,
R.M.O.,
The Beau Brummels,
Jacques Brel,
The Doors,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Organ,
Mantronix,
H. Thieme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Gang Green,
In Retrospect,
Deakin,
Flash Fearless,
Morten Harket,
Stiv Bators,
Essential Logic,
The Moleskins,
The Velvet Underground,
Half Japanese,
The Blues Magoos,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Searchers,
Tom Boy,
Audionom,
Livin' Joy,
Suburban Knight,
Adolescents,
Pharoah Sanders,
Technova,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Slits,
Deadbeat,
China Crisis,
Arcadia,
Radiohead,
Fatback Band,
John Coltrane,
Sparks,
Swell Maps,
Danielle Patucci,
Scrapy,
Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears, Tears for Fears.
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.