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 Lebanon 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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare 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 guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
The Searchers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kerri Chandler,
Gang Green,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Electric Prunes,
Byron Stingily,
Joyce Sims,
The Fire Engines,
Ituana,
One Last Wish,
Bizarre Inc.,
Black Sheep,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Marvin Gaye,
The Happenings,
Roger Hodgson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tomorrow,
Sun City Girls,
The Tremeloes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joe Finger,
Robert Wyatt,
The Cramps,
Dual Sessions,
Bootsy Collins,
The Kinks,
Darondo,
Animal Collective,
Y Pants,
B.T. Express,
Janne Schatter,
Erasure,
Scott Walker,
Cybotron,
Thee Headcoats,
Camberwell Now,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Motions,
Wasted Youth,
The Knickerbockers,
Desert Stars,
Faraquet,
The New Christs,
Vainqueur,
Rod Modell,
Gang Gang Dance,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Toni Rubio,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gong,
Piero Umiliani,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Aaron Thompson,
The Residents,
Half Japanese,
Altered Images,
Panda Bear,
H. Thieme,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.