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 Switzerland and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Fuzztones to the techno 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Index,
Fugazi,
Metal Thangz,
Babytalk,
Country Teasers,
Prince Buster,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Real Kids,
Massinfluence,
Grandmaster Flash,
Stereo Dub,
Jerry's Kids,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Toasters,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Star Department,
Cheater Slicks,
New York Dolls,
DJ Style,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Joy Division,
Robert Görl,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Martian,
Gichy Dan,
The Skatalites,
The American Breed,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Janne Schatter,
Joe Finger,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Arab on Radar,
Kerri Chandler,
The Misunderstood,
Barrington Levy,
Accadde A,
Moss Icon,
China Crisis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sexual Harrassment,
Nation of Ulysses,
Warren Ellis,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
UT,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jeff Mills,
Sixth Finger,
Henry Cow,
FM Einheit,
DJ Sneak,
kango's stein massive,
Vladislav Delay,
The Pop Group,
The Associates,
Magma,
Bang On A Can,
the Normal,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.