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 Lebanon and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Nik Kershaw to the grime 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 Lee Hazlewood. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Lydon,
Aloha Tigers,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Remains,
Kool Moe Dee,
Metal Thangz,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Erasure,
Simply Red,
Sällskapet,
R.M.O.,
Todd Rundgren,
Max Romeo,
Mars,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
ABBA,
The Dead C,
FM Einheit,
Cymande,
The Trojans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Urselle,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Neu!,
Bluetip,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lebanon Hanover,
Banda Bassotti,
Don Cherry,
Excepter,
Bang On A Can,
Scientists,
The Associates,
Minutemen,
Lyres,
Kerri Chandler,
Ituana,
Blancmange,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Susan Cadogan,
John Cale,
Thompson Twins,
Gang of Four,
Reuben Wilson,
Sandy B,
JFA,
Eve St. Jones,
PIL,
Thee Headcoats,
The American Breed,
Curtis Mayfield,
Amazonics,
KRS-One,
Essential Logic,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.