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 Romania and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Shanghai.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Hot Snakes to the funk 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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aswad,
The Zeros,
Bootsy Collins,
Sight & Sound,
Nick Fraelich,
Crooked Eye,
Thompson Twins,
The Moleskins,
Hashim,
The Human League,
Inner City,
The Divine Comedy,
Organ,
Mo-Dettes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Standells,
Howard Jones,
The Young Rascals,
Fluxion,
Pussy Galore,
E-Dancer,
Wings,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Suburban Knight,
Zero Boys,
Boogie Down Productions,
R.M.O.,
The Searchers,
Agitation Free,
8 Eyed Spy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pylon,
Arthur Verocai,
Accadde A,
Fela Kuti,
Nico,
Minutemen,
Neil Young,
Donny Hathaway,
48th St. Collective,
Ronan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eric Dolphy,
Average White Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Harpers Bizarre,
Lucky Dragons,
Hardrive,
Ultimate Spinach,
Vainqueur,
Mars,
Amon Düül II,
Sixth Finger,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fat Boys,
Lower 48,
The Fortunes,
Marine Girls,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Johnny Osbourne,
H. Thieme,
Banda Bassotti,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.