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 Somalia and from Portland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the organ 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the dance 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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Alice Coltrane,
Goldenarms,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Walker Brothers,
Scan 7,
Hardrive,
Agitation Free,
the Slits,
Silicon Teens,
Erykah Badu,
Motorama,
Neil Young,
Roger Hodgson,
Pagans,
Qualms,
X-102,
Monks,
Traffic Nightmare,
Dawn Penn,
Chrome,
Cecil Taylor,
The Pop Group,
Marmalade,
Deepchord,
Leonard Cohen,
The Real Kids,
Depeche Mode,
Maurizio,
Camberwell Now,
Jeff Mills,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Raincoats,
Metal Thangz,
Fear,
Fluxion,
Pole,
The Divine Comedy,
Black Flag,
China Crisis,
the Swans,
The Stooges,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lindisfarne,
DJ Sneak,
Lungfish,
Quantec,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Yellowson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
T. Rex,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pharoah Sanders,
Con Funk Shun,
Avey Tare,
Warsaw,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Television Personalities,
These Immortal Souls,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.