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 East Timor and from Hong Kong.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the electroclash 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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Scan 7,
La Düsseldorf,
The Durutti Column,
Josef K,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Supertramp,
Michelle Simonal,
Sparks,
Blake Baxter,
Cymande,
Kurtis Blow,
the Normal,
Lucky Dragons,
UT,
Saccharine Trust,
Kerri Chandler,
Sam Rivers,
Bill Wells,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Peter and Kerry,
Scrapy,
Suburban Knight,
Sun Ra,
Rites of Spring,
Banda Bassotti,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Sonics,
Swell Maps,
Animal Collective,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Monks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Desert Stars,
Stetsasonic,
Lungfish,
Half Japanese,
the Association,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pole,
John Foxx,
B.T. Express,
Adolescents,
Rosa Yemen,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
L. Decosne,
Camouflage,
Pharoah Sanders,
Television Personalities,
Ludus,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Smoke,
Icehouse,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Wire,
The J.B.'s,
Dual Sessions,
Aloha Tigers,
Chris Corsano,
Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms, Boredoms.
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.