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 Serbia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Kaleidoscope to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marshall Jefferson,
Eddi Front,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Mars,
Glenn Branca,
The Zeros,
Radiohead,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Circle Jerks,
Albert Ayler,
Sister Nancy,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Doors,
Aaron Thompson,
Infiniti,
Davy DMX,
Negative Approach,
Surgeon,
Sexual Harrassment,
Main Source,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Spandau Ballet,
Ituana,
Ken Boothe,
Blancmange,
Tommy Roe,
Anakelly,
Susan Cadogan,
The Electric Prunes,
Bobby Hutcherson,
T. Rex,
Lalann,
Rod Modell,
Fugazi,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Barry Ungar,
Black Flag,
UT,
Babytalk,
The Busters,
D'Angelo,
Nico,
In Retrospect,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Beau Brummels,
Oneida,
Ludus,
Icehouse,
The Gap Band,
Can,
Brand Nubian,
Deepchord,
The Names,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Joe Finger,
Whodini,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Count Five,
F. McDonald,
Stereo Dub,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.