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 Mongolia and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 mellotron 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 Rufus Thomas to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Saccharine Trust,
cv313,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Duran Duran,
Matthew Bourne,
Darondo,
Throbbing Gristle,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Radio Birdman,
Shoche,
Fela Kuti,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rekid,
Hardrive,
Mandrill,
the Swans,
Pharoah Sanders,
Quadrant,
Quando Quango,
AZ,
Avey Tare,
Adolescents,
Sight & Sound,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bronski Beat,
Amon Düül,
Pole,
Q65,
Juan Atkins,
Rufus Thomas,
Oneida,
Sonic Youth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Aaron Thompson,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eric Dolphy,
Agent Orange,
World's Most,
Rotary Connection,
The Move,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sandy B,
Lungfish,
Drive Like Jehu,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jesper Dahlback,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Star Department,
The Litter,
Minutemen,
Oblivians,
PIL,
The Zeros,
Radiohead,
Slick Rick,
The Cure,
X-Ray Spex,
L. Decosne,
Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan, Delon & Dalcan.
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.