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 Luxembourg and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Gladiators to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band 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 theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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?
Au Pairs,
cv313,
The Neon Judgement,
Colin Newman,
DJ Sneak,
Aloha Tigers,
U.S. Maple,
Pagans,
Cluster,
Negative Approach,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Tremeloes,
Bob Dylan,
Todd Terry,
Ossler,
The Residents,
Lee Hazlewood,
JFA,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Motions,
Bang On A Can,
Girls At Our Best!,
Carl Craig,
Audionom,
Radiopuhelimet,
Excepter,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
John Lydon,
Ronnie Foster,
Vladislav Delay,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Associates,
Magazine,
Young Marble Giants,
Mission of Burma,
The Human League,
Kerrie Biddell,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lalann,
The Five Americans,
Wally Richardson,
Anthony Braxton,
Traffic Nightmare,
Byron Stingily,
Minnie Riperton,
John Cale,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Smiths,
The Slackers,
Suicide,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gabor Szabo,
Erykah Badu,
Crash Course in Science,
Bill Wells,
Hashim,
Letta Mbulu,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.