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 Luxembourg and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 guitar 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Sixth Finger tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Real Kids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Harmonia,
Boogie Down Productions,
Underground Resistance,
Roxette,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Marvin Gaye,
Yaz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wolf Eyes,
Toni Rubio,
The Monochrome Set,
Icehouse,
Q65,
T. Rex,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Associates,
Marine Girls,
The Move,
Japan,
DJ Style,
The Dirtbombs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
ABBA,
Heaven 17,
Big Daddy Kane,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Blake Baxter,
Eric Copeland,
Theoretical Girls,
Symarip,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Desert Stars,
FM Einheit,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The American Breed,
Bob Dylan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kas Product,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
U.S. Maple,
Erykah Badu,
Mark Hollis,
Pagans,
Ronan,
John Lydon,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Wake,
KRS-One,
Lalann,
Supertramp,
Bauhaus,
Kool Moe Dee,
Barry Ungar,
Groovy Waters,
Slick Rick,
Maurizio,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.