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 Australia and from Beijing.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Pulsallama,
The Remains,
Eric Dolphy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Moby Grape,
Joyce Sims,
The Fugs,
The Sound,
Jandek,
Symarip,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Black Dice,
Deakin,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Slackers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Echospace,
Robert Wyatt,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
EPMD,
Mandrill,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Star Department,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Buzzcocks,
Marine Girls,
Joey Negro,
The United States of America,
Matthew Bourne,
Tomorrow,
Los Fastidios,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pylon,
Cheater Slicks,
John Cale,
Ice-T,
Jacob Miller,
F. McDonald,
The Toasters,
Eddi Front,
The Modern Lovers,
Surgeon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sun City Girls,
The Seeds,
Gichy Dan,
Panda Bear,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Barracudas,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Zero Boys,
Ossler,
The Motions,
Man Eating Sloth,
Cameo,
Eden Ahbez,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Brass Construction,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.