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 Belgium 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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Max Romeo to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All The Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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 Misunderstood,
Gastr Del Sol,
Robert Görl,
Ralphi Rosario,
F. McDonald,
Sonic Youth,
The Modern Lovers,
Susan Cadogan,
Vladislav Delay,
Lungfish,
the Germs,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Selecter,
The Birthday Party,
Max Romeo,
Crime,
Henry Cow,
Fat Boys,
Con Funk Shun,
The Moleskins,
The Gap Band,
Nick Fraelich,
Malaria!,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hashim,
Barbara Tucker,
The Leaves,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Graham Central Station,
Adolescents,
Pole,
The Fall,
Tom Boy,
Camouflage,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Oblivians,
48th St. Collective,
Faraquet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Los Fastidios,
The Remains,
Funkadelic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Von Mondo,
The Monks,
These Immortal Souls,
The Evens,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Main Source,
The Trojans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Zapp,
Cluster,
Connie Case,
the Human League,
The Seeds,
the Slits,
Bobby Byrd,
Sun City Girls,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.