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 Angola and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum 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 Country Joe & The Fish to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Babytalk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Sonny Sharrock,
Grandmaster Flash,
Babytalk,
Chris & Cosey,
Masters at Work,
Banda Bassotti,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sarah Menescal,
Cheater Slicks,
Sun City Girls,
Ronnie Foster,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Skaos,
Massinfluence,
Lebanon Hanover,
Scott Walker,
The Neon Judgement,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
UT,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Mojo Men,
Pet Shop Boys,
La Düsseldorf,
Funky Four + One,
Minutemen,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Slackers,
DJ Sneak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pantaleimon,
ABC,
Rites of Spring,
Tubeway Army,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Mandrill,
Kurtis Blow,
Michelle Simonal,
Ultra Naté,
Talk Talk,
The Flesh Eaters,
Lou Reed,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Donald Byrd,
Soul Sonic Force,
Moebius,
Howard Jones,
L. Decosne,
Fluxion,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lightning Bolt,
The Moleskins,
Nik Kershaw,
Bronski Beat,
Duran Duran,
Boz Scaggs,
Lakeside,
Thompson Twins,
DJ Style,
Panda Bear,
New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls, New York Dolls.
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.