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 Italy and from New York.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Wally Richardson to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang on a Can All-Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Albert Ayler,
Throbbing Gristle,
Al Stewart,
ABC,
Sex Pistols,
Mo-Dettes,
Idris Muhammad,
Tommy Roe,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Selecter,
Agitation Free,
Newcleus,
The Monochrome Set,
Visage,
The Offenders,
Hoover,
Avey Tare,
The Moleskins,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The J.B.'s,
Lower 48,
The Fire Engines,
Arthur Verocai,
The Moody Blues,
Kenny Larkin,
Magma,
Aloha Tigers,
Black Flag,
the Bar-Kays,
Bob Dylan,
Sugar Minott,
Sixth Finger,
Sound Behaviour,
AZ,
The Grass Roots,
The Velvet Underground,
Eli Mardock,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Morten Harket,
the Swans,
Ossler,
Harry Pussy,
Tubeway Army,
Slick Rick,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Robert Wyatt,
Quadrant,
Eric Dolphy,
The Buckinghams,
Godley & Creme,
Masters at Work,
Y Pants,
Skriet,
The Fortunes,
Essential Logic,
Derrick Morgan,
Brass Construction,
The Angels of Light,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.