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 Sweden 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Lindisfarne to the punk 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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry Gold Smith,
Yazoo,
Brass Construction,
Drexciya,
LL Cool J,
Alison Limerick,
Das Ding,
Los Fastidios,
Basic Channel,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fatback Band,
New Age Steppers,
Arab on Radar,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Offenders,
CMW,
Ronnie Foster,
Nico,
the Association,
Black Moon,
The Index,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kerri Chandler,
Von Mondo,
Saccharine Trust,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Marine Girls,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Reuben Wilson,
Oblivians,
Wire,
Nirvana,
Zero Boys,
Unwound,
Harpers Bizarre,
Amon Düül,
Cheater Slicks,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nation of Ulysses,
D'Angelo,
Judy Mowatt,
Robert Wyatt,
The Motions,
Icehouse,
Visage,
Byron Stingily,
Quantec,
Marcia Griffiths,
Joyce Sims,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Music Machine,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Modern Lovers,
The Martian,
Livin' Joy,
The Seeds,
The Fall,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Parry Music,
Crooked Eye,
The Divine Comedy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.