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 Grenada and from Tokyo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 the Swans to the rock 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 Brothers Johnson. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Simply Red record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Idris Muhammad,
Ultravox,
Half Japanese,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Barry Ungar,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Leaves,
The Divine Comedy,
Monolake,
The Dave Clark Five,
Godley & Creme,
Yaz,
James White and The Blacks,
Crispy Ambulance,
Janne Schatter,
X-101,
New York Dolls,
Cybotron,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Josef K,
Sonic Youth,
The New Christs,
Kerri Chandler,
DJ Style,
Thompson Twins,
Camberwell Now,
Peter and Kerry,
Faust,
Rapeman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Dark Day,
Procol Harum,
Michelle Simonal,
Drexciya,
Bluetip,
The Zeros,
The Sonics,
The Slits,
Hashim,
Warren Ellis,
Q and Not U,
Marcia Griffiths,
Crime,
John Lydon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gabor Szabo,
Buzzcocks,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Barracudas,
The Doors,
Tubeway Army,
Kas Product,
The Monks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joe Finger,
Tommy Roe,
UT,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.