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 Bhutan and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe 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 Model 500 to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rakim. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every This Heat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Swell Maps,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Nils Olav,
Goldenarms,
Toni Rubio,
The Doors,
The Smoke,
LL Cool J,
Skaos,
Ice-T,
Public Enemy,
Eurythmics,
The Gun Club,
Ornette Coleman,
Joe Smooth,
Liliput,
Jimmy McGriff,
Marmalade,
The Blackbyrds,
Avey Tare,
Altered Images,
Mr. Review,
Sarah Menescal,
Dennis Brown,
DJ Style,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Prince Buster,
The Golliwogs,
Ronan,
Kurtis Blow,
Sällskapet,
Chris & Cosey,
Clear Light,
Crime,
Camberwell Now,
a-ha,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The New Christs,
Whodini,
Television Personalities,
Brothers Johnson,
Country Teasers,
Don Cherry,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Erasure,
The Sonics,
Underground Resistance,
Index,
Pierre Henry,
Leonard Cohen,
Parry Music,
Eddi Front,
Drive Like Jehu,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Five Americans,
Pylon,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.