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 Fiji and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Raincoats to the rap 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All Minor Threat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Masters at Work,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Dave Clark Five,
L. Decosne,
The Invisible,
Sonny Sharrock,
Danielle Patucci,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fire Engines,
Royal Trux,
Sound Behaviour,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ultravox,
Aswad,
Boz Scaggs,
The Cramps,
Basic Channel,
Stereo Dub,
Visage,
The Angels of Light,
Derrick Morgan,
Smog,
The Fugs,
Quadrant,
X-102,
A Certain Ratio,
The Fortunes,
Mr. Review,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Associates,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Albert Ayler,
Kerri Chandler,
Kaleidoscope,
Wire,
PIL,
Gang Gang Dance,
Graham Central Station,
The Evens,
H. Thieme,
Faraquet,
Schoolly D,
Don Cherry,
Agent Orange,
Althea and Donna,
Chrome,
Joy Division,
Rakim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Barclay James Harvest,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Black Bananas,
Sun Ra,
Mo-Dettes,
Marc Almond,
Anakelly,
Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover, Lebanon Hanover.
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.