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 Congo and from Lagos.
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 Lagos and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Monolake to the rock 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Flash Fearless,
a-ha,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Livin' Joy,
Lou Christie,
The Wake,
Nick Fraelich,
JFA,
Index,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Michelle Simonal,
Delta 5,
Byron Stingily,
Quantec,
Stiv Bators,
Electric Prunes,
Gabor Szabo,
Bush Tetras,
The Divine Comedy,
Don Cherry,
Deadbeat,
Severed Heads,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Peter & Gordon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Banda Bassotti,
Idris Muhammad,
Sonic Youth,
Nils Olav,
The Cowsills,
Simply Red,
Royal Trux,
Letta Mbulu,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Josef K,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Y Pants,
Soul II Soul,
Boredoms,
Bob Dylan,
Stetsasonic,
Dennis Brown,
Smog,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Seeds,
Mark Hollis,
Nirvana,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Kurtis Blow,
Moby Grape,
The Fortunes,
Skaos,
Niagra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Scratch Acid,
Japan,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Last Poets,
Lightning Bolt,
The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites, The Skatalites.
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.