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 Singapore and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Zapp to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Byron Stingily,
Youth Brigade,
Royal Trux,
Eyeless In Gaza,
X-Ray Spex,
Matthew Bourne,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tears for Fears,
Dead Boys,
ABBA,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tres Demented,
The Young Rascals,
Qualms,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Victims,
The Skatalites,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ultimate Spinach,
Blake Baxter,
Isaac Hayes,
The Happenings,
Marine Girls,
Don Cherry,
Tommy Roe,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Gun Club,
Sixth Finger,
Slave,
Outsiders,
Reagan Youth,
Magazine,
Gang Starr,
MC5,
Ronan,
DJ Sneak,
Jeff Mills,
The Gories,
Kerri Chandler,
T.S.O.L.,
Minny Pops,
The Pretty Things,
Das Ding,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scientists,
Rapeman,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
John Lydon,
Peter & Gordon,
L. Decosne,
Sonic Youth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jeru the Damaja,
Soft Machine,
The Tremeloes,
Blossom Toes,
Soft Cell,
Fad Gadget,
Quando Quango,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Style,
Darondo,
The Misunderstood,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.