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 Iran and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ 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 Deepchord to the grunge 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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Andrew Hill 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a PIL record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
This Heat,
Alison Limerick,
Arcadia,
Gastr Del Sol,
Man Parrish,
Lindisfarne,
ABBA,
Shuggie Otis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lalo Schifrin,
Marc Almond,
Porter Ricks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Deepchord,
Yellowson,
Peter and Kerry,
Hardrive,
Surgeon,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joey Negro,
The Martian,
Fat Boys,
Neil Young,
the Swans,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scott Walker,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bluetip,
Sugar Minott,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Happenings,
Sex Pistols,
Lucky Dragons,
Terrestrial Tones,
Eric B and Rakim,
Anthony Braxton,
David Bowie,
Robert Wyatt,
Basic Channel,
Scion,
K-Klass,
MC5,
The Star Department,
The Misunderstood,
Kas Product,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Zapp,
June Days,
Colin Newman,
Sun Ra,
Tomorrow,
The Sonics,
The Seeds,
Youth Brigade,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Connie Case,
Blancmange,
The New Christs,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.