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 New York.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 mellotron 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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks to the crunk 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Bluetip,
The J.B.'s,
Mantronix,
Barrington Levy,
the Normal,
Maleditus Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
Crime,
Mary Jane Girls,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
LL Cool J,
Schoolly D,
Black Sheep,
Essential Logic,
Eric B and Rakim,
La Düsseldorf,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Peter & Gordon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Alton Ellis,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sparks,
Guru Guru,
Surgeon,
Skarface,
Nirvana,
MC5,
Q65,
Hoover,
Byron Stingily,
Chris Corsano,
Michelle Simonal,
Fugazi,
Freddie Wadling,
Urselle,
Kerri Chandler,
Blancmange,
The Raincoats,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Henry Cow,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tres Demented,
Khruangbin,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobby Byrd,
Josef K,
Brick,
Zero Boys,
Matthew Bourne,
The Angels of Light,
The Martian,
World's Most,
The Vogues,
The Shadows of Knight,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cecil Taylor,
Radiopuhelimet,
Malaria!,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.