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 Tunisia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 theremin 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 The Last Poets to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jawbox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
Youth Brigade,
Sun Ra,
Schoolly D,
Wolf Eyes,
Inner City,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neu!,
Juan Atkins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Thompson Twins,
MC5,
Anakelly,
David Axelrod,
Kurtis Blow,
Main Source,
Trumans Water,
Cybotron,
Todd Terry,
Derrick Morgan,
Maleditus Sound,
The Mojo Men,
Intrusion,
Moss Icon,
Colin Newman,
Dark Day,
Erykah Badu,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Au Pairs,
OOIOO,
The Barracudas,
Brand Nubian,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sonny Sharrock,
Fatback Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Reagan Youth,
Mr. Review,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Symarip,
Sam Rivers,
Negative Approach,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Matthew Halsall,
Peter and Kerry,
Tears for Fears,
Donny Hathaway,
The Searchers,
Alice Coltrane,
The Durutti Column,
Joyce Sims,
Metal Thangz,
Soft Machine,
The Skatalites,
Soulsonic Force,
The Mummies,
L. Decosne,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Oblivians,
The Young Rascals,
Franke,
Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic, Funkadelic.
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.