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 Maldives and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 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 Iggy Pop to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Deadbeat,
Parry Music,
Visage,
Yellowson,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Niagra,
Animal Collective,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Freddie Wadling,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
EPMD,
Public Enemy,
Black Flag,
Grauzone,
Moss Icon,
Flamin' Groovies,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
D'Angelo,
The Toasters,
Essential Logic,
Stockholm Monsters,
Steve Hackett,
China Crisis,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Velvet Underground,
Althea and Donna,
Smog,
The Zeros,
Lalo Schifrin,
Desert Stars,
Audionom,
The Young Rascals,
The Invisible,
Roxy Music,
Todd Terry,
Second Layer,
The Leaves,
Television Personalities,
The Red Krayola,
Arab on Radar,
Andrew Hill,
Hot Snakes,
The Walker Brothers,
Minor Threat,
Banda Bassotti,
Josef K,
Whodini,
The Searchers,
Peter & Gordon,
Toni Rubio,
Iggy Pop,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jacob Miller,
Fela Kuti,
Lungfish,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Gladiators,
The Knickerbockers,
The Golliwogs,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.