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 Papua New Guinea and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Cheater Slicks to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Lizzy Mercier Descloux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Names record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pretty Things,
Malaria!,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Eric Dolphy,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rosa Yemen,
The Cramps,
The Buckinghams,
Eve St. Jones,
Television Personalities,
Von Mondo,
Inner City,
In Retrospect,
Bobby Sherman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Negative Approach,
Junior Murvin,
Frankie Knuckles,
Babytalk,
Simply Red,
Cluster,
The Martian,
Donny Hathaway,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Selecter,
Slave,
FM Einheit,
John Cale,
Bauhaus,
Accadde A,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Young Marble Giants,
Mars,
Half Japanese,
Dorothy Ashby,
Crooked Eye,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Icehouse,
The Velvet Underground,
The Gladiators,
T.S.O.L.,
Nation of Ulysses,
Jandek,
Underground Resistance,
Tres Demented,
Camberwell Now,
Fear,
June of 44,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dark Day,
The Mummies,
Anthony Braxton,
Electric Prunes,
Maleditus Sound,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Names,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Surgeon,
Vladislav Delay,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.