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 Chile and from London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Yusef Lateef to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fort Wilson Riot record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Dorothy Ashby,
Moss Icon,
Minor Threat,
Joy Division,
CMW,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ossler,
The American Breed,
The Walker Brothers,
Ultravox,
A Certain Ratio,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Arcadia,
Danielle Patucci,
Skarface,
R.M.O.,
Franke,
Swans,
Pole,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Camouflage,
Ice-T,
Royal Trux,
Icehouse,
Infiniti,
The Zeros,
Shuggie Otis,
The Black Dice,
Monks,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Massinfluence,
The Human League,
Roger Hodgson,
Sonny Sharrock,
Au Pairs,
Howard Jones,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Alton Ellis,
Second Layer,
Flash Fearless,
The Smiths,
Pierre Henry,
Tomorrow,
Kevin Saunderson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Maleditus Sound,
Aural Exciters,
Parry Music,
Freddie Wadling,
Bobby Sherman,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Babytalk,
Little Man,
Depeche Mode,
The Busters,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Seeds,
Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.
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.