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 Ecuador and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the snare 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 Pet Shop Boys to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Masters at Work record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Ludus,
Patti Smith,
Minutemen,
Masters at Work,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Moon,
The Slackers,
Lindisfarne,
Cal Tjader,
Letta Mbulu,
Metal Thangz,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Crime,
Dark Day,
Ultra Naté,
Jawbox,
Bronski Beat,
The Star Department,
Leonard Cohen,
Franke,
The Leaves,
David Axelrod,
Country Teasers,
Scan 7,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pet Shop Boys,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Joe Finger,
Basic Channel,
The Fall,
Fatback Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Unwound,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Slits,
Scott Walker,
Eric B and Rakim,
Cymande,
Barrington Levy,
Stereo Dub,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bootsy Collins,
Sonic Youth,
Bluetip,
The Saints,
Zapp,
The Victims,
Nas,
Television Personalities,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Flesh Eaters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Dave Gahan,
Suburban Knight,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Carl Craig,
Kool Moe Dee,
Wings,
The Selecter,
Radio Birdman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.