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 Pakistan and from Spokane.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 808 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 Scrapy to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The New Christs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
The Real Kids,
Kas Product,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kaleidoscope,
The Pretty Things,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Television,
Gastr Del Sol,
New York Dolls,
Ponytail,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Glambeats Corp.,
Drive Like Jehu,
Wolf Eyes,
Deadbeat,
Jacob Miller,
Half Japanese,
Kurtis Blow,
Alphaville,
Wasted Youth,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Theoretical Girls,
The Offenders,
D'Angelo,
Scion,
Minor Threat,
kango's stein massive,
Interpol,
Maurizio,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Marvin Gaye,
Deakin,
Aaron Thompson,
Arcadia,
Skriet,
Man Parrish,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Model 500,
The Barracudas,
The Grass Roots,
Absolute Body Control,
Nico,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Zeros,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Henry Cow,
Sällskapet,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Vogues,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Animal Collective,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ten City,
Wire,
Erasure,
The Remains,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Desert Stars,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.