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 Guatemala and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 oboe 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 Glenn Branca to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Yaz. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skriet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Pantaleimon,
Marc Almond,
Tears for Fears,
The Walker Brothers,
Babytalk,
Unwound,
Harmonia,
The Offenders,
Janne Schatter,
K-Klass,
Wolf Eyes,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Mo-Dettes,
Y Pants,
John Coltrane,
Flash Fearless,
Stiv Bators,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Residents,
Moebius,
The New Christs,
Dave Gahan,
Lee Hazlewood,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Maleditus Sound,
JFA,
The Smoke,
The Motions,
The Music Machine,
Con Funk Shun,
Maurizio,
Sällskapet,
The Busters,
Lucky Dragons,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
David McCallum,
The Cure,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Victims,
Metal Thangz,
Johnny Osbourne,
Peter & Gordon,
Stereo Dub,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Patti Smith,
The Golliwogs,
Sugar Minott,
Jacob Miller,
Malaria!,
The Skatalites,
Andrew Hill,
Scan 7,
Suicide,
Glambeats Corp.,
Guru Guru,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.