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 Chad and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Swans to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Suburban Knight,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Walker Brothers,
Model 500,
Goldenarms,
the Bar-Kays,
Motorama,
Average White Band,
Nils Olav,
Scott Walker,
The Smoke,
Harry Pussy,
U.S. Maple,
Robert Görl,
Tommy Roe,
Fugazi,
Siglo XX,
Dual Sessions,
Kevin Saunderson,
Danielle Patucci,
John Lydon,
Moss Icon,
Sun City Girls,
Yellowson,
The Count Five,
Thee Headcoats,
The Gap Band,
X-Ray Spex,
Ultra Naté,
Neu!,
Yusef Lateef,
MC5,
Marmalade,
Max Romeo,
FM Einheit,
The Remains,
Don Cherry,
Dave Gahan,
Infiniti,
Mr. Review,
F. McDonald,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Fire Engines,
Underground Resistance,
Lindisfarne,
Todd Rundgren,
Flash Fearless,
David Axelrod,
Pylon,
Ponytail,
Gregory Isaacs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Soul II Soul,
Newcleus,
The Leaves,
The Martian,
Tres Demented,
The Happenings,
Radio Birdman,
Magazine,
Au Pairs,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.