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 Oman and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Philadelphia.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Fire Engines to the punk 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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
FM Einheit,
Lebanon Hanover,
Reuben Wilson,
Boredoms,
The Move,
Stetsasonic,
Public Image Ltd.,
Smog,
Oneida,
Harmonia,
Radiohead,
Adolescents,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eve St. Jones,
Roxette,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sound Behaviour,
The Martian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dual Sessions,
Faust,
Kayak,
Sam Rivers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
World's Most,
The Blues Magoos,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bronski Beat,
Harpers Bizarre,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gichy Dan,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gabor Szabo,
The Seeds,
Johnny Clarke,
Fear,
The Fire Engines,
The United States of America,
Delta 5,
Prince Buster,
New Order,
Mad Mike,
Cybotron,
cv313,
Dennis Brown,
Thompson Twins,
Pantytec,
Slave,
Aloha Tigers,
Lou Reed,
F. McDonald,
Television Personalities,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Duran Duran,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Gregory Isaacs,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Saccharine Trust,
Sight & Sound,
Scrapy,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls.
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.