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 Indonesia and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Circle Jerks to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Rapeman,
Colin Newman,
Kayak,
Gang Green,
Japan,
Fad Gadget,
Cameo,
Rotary Connection,
Tres Demented,
Aloha Tigers,
Danielle Patucci,
K-Klass,
Funky Four + One,
Wally Richardson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Idris Muhammad,
The Electric Prunes,
The Golliwogs,
Liliput,
Procol Harum,
The Smoke,
Bauhaus,
Black Bananas,
Eric Copeland,
Sparks,
Rhythm & Sound,
John Lydon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Sheep,
Steve Hackett,
Quantec,
Bill Near,
Ronnie Foster,
T. Rex,
The Move,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mantronix,
Lee Hazlewood,
Schoolly D,
JFA,
Unwound,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Harry Pussy,
Rosa Yemen,
LL Cool J,
Nas,
Quadrant,
Young Marble Giants,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Brass Construction,
D'Angelo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Intrusion,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Groovy Waters,
David McCallum,
Crispy Ambulance,
Flash Fearless,
Blake Baxter,
the Slits,
Q65,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.