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 Lebanon and from Beijing.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Agitation Free to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Cure,
Alphaville,
Ultimate Spinach,
Mission of Burma,
Steve Hackett,
The Offenders,
Lee Hazlewood,
Animal Collective,
Derrick Morgan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
JFA,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Swans,
Max Romeo,
The Zeros,
Deepchord,
Vladislav Delay,
Piero Umiliani,
Swans,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scott Walker,
The Smoke,
One Last Wish,
Laurel Aitken,
DJ Sneak,
Electric Prunes,
John Foxx,
Rapeman,
Shoche,
Robert Görl,
Matthew Bourne,
Nirvana,
Big Daddy Kane,
ABC,
Mandrill,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Leaves,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Flag,
Erasure,
Trumans Water,
T. Rex,
Brick,
Bobby Byrd,
Boredoms,
Black Bananas,
DJ Style,
Soul Sonic Force,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Cramps,
This Heat,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
the Fania All-Stars,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pere Ubu,
Sun Ra,
Zapp,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.