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 Bahrain and from Paris.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manchester.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Man Parrish to the crunk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
Neu!,
Wire,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bush Tetras,
Hasil Adkins,
Warren Ellis,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ice-T,
In Retrospect,
Animal Collective,
The Red Krayola,
Bauhaus,
Eve St. Jones,
The Fuzztones,
LL Cool J,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Swell Maps,
Malaria!,
Chris & Cosey,
Connie Case,
Yaz,
Von Mondo,
Negative Approach,
Fad Gadget,
kango's stein massive,
Big Daddy Kane,
Altered Images,
Pole,
Mantronix,
Delta 5,
FM Einheit,
Q and Not U,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Technova,
Slave,
The Remains,
The Misunderstood,
Tropical Tobacco,
New York Dolls,
The Happenings,
Gang Starr,
Symarip,
Deadbeat,
Organ,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Knickerbockers,
Terrestrial Tones,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Theoretical Girls,
Lucky Dragons,
Bill Wells,
Rufus Thomas,
Grauzone,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dual Sessions,
Thompson Twins,
Reuben Wilson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Electric Prunes,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.