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 Switzerland and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sixth Finger to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Circle Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Crispy Ambulance,
Amon Düül II,
Rotary Connection,
New York Dolls,
Dorothy Ashby,
In Retrospect,
The Searchers,
Brand Nubian,
X-102,
Magazine,
New Order,
Ultravox,
D'Angelo,
Von Mondo,
UT,
ABBA,
Juan Atkins,
Aaron Thompson,
Gabor Szabo,
Patti Smith,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Star Department,
The Residents,
Excepter,
Alice Coltrane,
The Vogues,
Ten City,
Masters at Work,
the Bar-Kays,
Maleditus Sound,
Arthur Verocai,
Bauhaus,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Fortunes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Crash Course in Science,
DJ Sneak,
Gang Green,
Swans,
The Evens,
the Association,
The Index,
Tomorrow,
DJ Style,
Quantec,
Erykah Badu,
Roxette,
Lakeside,
Silicon Teens,
The Fugs,
Eden Ahbez,
Cecil Taylor,
FM Einheit,
Peter & Gordon,
Crooked Eye,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Slave,
The Blues Magoos,
Jandek,
Half Japanese,
Trumans Water,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Siouxsie and the Banshees.
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.