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 Sao Paulo.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Dave Gahan to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 U.S. Maple. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Peanut Butter Conspiracy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
Michelle Simonal,
Bauhaus,
Circle Jerks,
Radiopuhelimet,
Judy Mowatt,
Thompson Twins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Derrick Morgan,
OOIOO,
Cecil Taylor,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Patti Smith,
Junior Murvin,
Can,
Sparks,
Delta 5,
The Slits,
Bluetip,
Traffic Nightmare,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Half Japanese,
Brick,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Carl Craig,
R.M.O.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sun City Girls,
Arab on Radar,
Bronski Beat,
Camberwell Now,
Soft Cell,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Walker Brothers,
Iggy Pop,
Groovy Waters,
Glenn Branca,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Aloha Tigers,
The Names,
Bad Manners,
Joensuu 1685,
Eric Copeland,
Fela Kuti,
The Associates,
Prince Buster,
Archie Shepp,
Reuben Wilson,
Surgeon,
Stetsasonic,
The American Breed,
The Trojans,
Index,
Bush Tetras,
Blake Baxter,
Sugar Minott,
Sound Behaviour,
Jeru the Damaja,
Urselle,
Wolf Eyes,
Peter and Kerry,
Siglo XX,
Sonic Youth,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.