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 Moldova and from Calgary.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young & Crazy Horse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
The Birthday Party,
The Motions,
Bobby Byrd,
Lindisfarne,
Groovy Waters,
Yazoo,
Donald Byrd,
Los Fastidios,
Deakin,
Ituana,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun City Girls,
Japan,
The Selecter,
Eden Ahbez,
Moby Grape,
Qualms,
The Dirtbombs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bill Wells,
Pet Shop Boys,
Lee Hazlewood,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kas Product,
Oneida,
Hardrive,
Eric Dolphy,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Excepter,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Fela Kuti,
Radio Birdman,
New Order,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lightning Bolt,
New York Dolls,
Howard Jones,
Girls At Our Best!,
Black Bananas,
Mandrill,
Scientists,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Hashim,
Basic Channel,
Alison Limerick,
The Litter,
DJ Style,
Angry Samoans,
Yaz,
Theoretical Girls,
Icehouse,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Associates,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Youth Brigade,
Pierre Henry,
Masters at Work,
The Offenders,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.