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 Turkey 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Tomorrow to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Tremeloes. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bauhaus 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Last Poets,
Sister Nancy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Marine Girls,
Shuggie Otis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Soulsonic Force,
The Leaves,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Trojans,
Groovy Waters,
Isaac Hayes,
Joe Smooth,
Delon & Dalcan,
Wings,
Susan Cadogan,
MC5,
Yazoo,
Basic Channel,
Glenn Branca,
Young Marble Giants,
Ludus,
Moebius,
Patti Smith,
Cameo,
Underground Resistance,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
U.S. Maple,
Liliput,
Subhumans,
Chrome,
The Remains,
Barrington Levy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Silicon Teens,
Banda Bassotti,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sound Behaviour,
Trumans Water,
10cc,
The Birthday Party,
Suicide,
Siglo XX,
Black Sheep,
Jerry's Kids,
Soul II Soul,
The Red Krayola,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moby Grape,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sällskapet,
Y Pants,
The J.B.'s,
The Names,
Tropical Tobacco,
Brothers Johnson,
Arthur Verocai,
The Real Kids,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Roxy Music,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox, Ultravox.
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.