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 Kazakhstan and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Zero Boys to the electroclash 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 Glambeats Corp.. All the underground hits.
All Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Men They Couldn't Hang record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crooked Eye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
D'Angelo,
The Gun Club,
The Raincoats,
Fad Gadget,
The Trojans,
Delta 5,
Roger Hodgson,
Crooked Eye,
Lebanon Hanover,
La Düsseldorf,
The Wake,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Oneida,
Crispy Ambulance,
Urselle,
New York Dolls,
EPMD,
The Dave Clark Five,
Kenny Larkin,
Pierre Henry,
The Evens,
Public Image Ltd.,
Panda Bear,
Godley & Creme,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fatback Band,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dennis Brown,
Scrapy,
Neil Young,
The Blackbyrds,
Deadbeat,
Brass Construction,
Graham Central Station,
Negative Approach,
a-ha,
Sugar Minott,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Associates,
Pulsallama,
Minor Threat,
Matthew Halsall,
Inner City,
Cymande,
The Grass Roots,
Jeff Mills,
MDC,
Susan Cadogan,
X-101,
Popol Vuh,
Thompson Twins,
Sam Rivers,
Amon Düül II,
The Standells,
Big Daddy Kane,
Shoche,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Schoolly D,
Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling, Freddie Wadling.
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.