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 Uganda and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 synthesizer 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 Jacques Brel to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maurizio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terrestrial Tones,
Siglo XX,
cv313,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Adolescents,
Suburban Knight,
Drexciya,
Althea and Donna,
In Retrospect,
Black Flag,
The Velvet Underground,
Leonard Cohen,
Bauhaus,
Marine Girls,
Heaven 17,
Ice-T,
Tropical Tobacco,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ornette Coleman,
Fear,
Yazoo,
The Fugs,
Piero Umiliani,
Glambeats Corp.,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Quando Quango,
Technova,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pantytec,
The Happenings,
Faraquet,
Depeche Mode,
Freddie Wadling,
Carl Craig,
Sonny Sharrock,
Marc Almond,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Tremeloes,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Angels of Light,
The Slackers,
Severed Heads,
UT,
Joy Division,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Alton Ellis,
Los Fastidios,
Neil Young,
The Real Kids,
Tres Demented,
Pagans,
The Black Dice,
Zapp,
The Busters,
Electric Prunes,
Arcadia,
Underground Resistance,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
10cc,
The Walker Brothers,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.