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 Congo and from Jakarta.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the rock 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agitation Free record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Black Pus,
Al Stewart,
Joyce Sims,
Ponytail,
The Skatalites,
The Electric Prunes,
Fad Gadget,
Erasure,
Kaleidoscope,
The Fire Engines,
Juan Atkins,
Hasil Adkins,
Mad Mike,
Jimmy McGriff,
David McCallum,
The Five Americans,
Black Flag,
Leonard Cohen,
Freddie Wadling,
The Raincoats,
Fela Kuti,
John Cale,
Joe Smooth,
Chrome,
The Busters,
Procol Harum,
Nirvana,
Nico,
Electric Prunes,
Barry Ungar,
Carl Craig,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Swans,
June of 44,
Lyres,
Yusef Lateef,
Marc Almond,
Cheater Slicks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Charles Mingus,
Liliput,
EPMD,
Sun Ra,
Connie Case,
Can,
Outsiders,
Toni Rubio,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ornette Coleman,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mantronix,
Infiniti,
Judy Mowatt,
X-101,
The Zeros,
The Stooges,
The Fuzztones,
The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column, The Durutti Column.
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.