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 Russia and from Delhi.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Heavy D & The Boyz to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cheater Slicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Chris & Cosey,
Matthew Bourne,
Yazoo,
Laurel Aitken,
Motorama,
Tropical Tobacco,
Gong,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Janne Schatter,
Roger Hodgson,
Bang On A Can,
Half Japanese,
Isaac Hayes,
Essential Logic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Walker Brothers,
Quadrant,
The Remains,
Tomorrow,
Prince Buster,
The Velvet Underground,
The Angels of Light,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Joe Finger,
Bauhaus,
Cal Tjader,
Pulsallama,
The Stooges,
X-101,
Swans,
Sam Rivers,
ABBA,
Wings,
Minor Threat,
Steve Hackett,
Mad Mike,
Silicon Teens,
Section 25,
James Chance & The Contortions,
FM Einheit,
Guru Guru,
Junior Murvin,
Main Source,
A Certain Ratio,
X-Ray Spex,
Bluetip,
Jandek,
Depeche Mode,
Absolute Body Control,
Trumans Water,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Alison Limerick,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Pop Group,
Ronan,
Dorothy Ashby,
Excepter,
Frankie Knuckles,
Arthur Verocai,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.