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 Congo and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 oboe 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 cv313 to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All MC5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Cowsills,
Brass Construction,
The Gap Band,
Warren Ellis,
The Doors,
La Düsseldorf,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chrome,
The Mummies,
Wolf Eyes,
Arcadia,
Yellowson,
X-102,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jacques Brel,
Marcia Griffiths,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bobby Sherman,
Jimmy McGriff,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dark Day,
Kurtis Blow,
U.S. Maple,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Quantec,
Althea and Donna,
Easy Going,
Maleditus Sound,
Amazonics,
The Human League,
Jesper Dahlback,
In Retrospect,
Reagan Youth,
Ronnie Foster,
Girls At Our Best!,
James White and The Blacks,
Slave,
Au Pairs,
Grey Daturas,
The American Breed,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Radiohead,
Nik Kershaw,
Public Image Ltd.,
Accadde A,
Loose Ends,
Hasil Adkins,
Mad Mike,
Judy Mowatt,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gang Green,
Whodini,
Moebius,
Oneida,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Television,
Porter Ricks,
Janne Schatter,
Groovy Waters,
Hardrive,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.