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 Singapore and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jawbox to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All the Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Count Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Terry Callier,
Patti Smith,
Magazine,
Groovy Waters,
LL Cool J,
Soulsonic Force,
Sällskapet,
Kaleidoscope,
Quantec,
Basic Channel,
Rod Modell,
The Invisible,
Avey Tare,
Rosa Yemen,
Nils Olav,
Marc Almond,
Johnny Osbourne,
Excepter,
the Human League,
Bluetip,
KRS-One,
ABC,
Model 500,
Urselle,
the Slits,
Sun Ra,
Circle Jerks,
Audionom,
Clear Light,
Idris Muhammad,
T. Rex,
Nirvana,
The Young Rascals,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sarah Menescal,
Althea and Donna,
Cal Tjader,
Boredoms,
Moby Grape,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sam Rivers,
Roy Ayers,
Marine Girls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Vladislav Delay,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Mo-Dettes,
The Cramps,
The Moleskins,
Massinfluence,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Neil Young,
the Fania All-Stars,
Archie Shepp,
the Normal,
Section 25,
UT,
Technova,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band.
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.