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 Rwanda and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Men They Couldn't Hang to the funk 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 Alice Coltrane. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fluxion record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed & John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Barry Ungar,
Reagan Youth,
Lindisfarne,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Procol Harum,
The Mummies,
Rhythm & Sound,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Kinks,
The Index,
The Five Americans,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Slackers,
Eve St. Jones,
Barrington Levy,
Slave,
The Gories,
Soft Machine,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Traffic Nightmare,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lakeside,
Funkadelic,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Eric Dolphy,
the Slits,
Andrew Hill,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Toasters,
Soul II Soul,
Todd Rundgren,
Piero Umiliani,
Duran Duran,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Adolescents,
Scott Walker,
Chrome,
Alphaville,
Lightning Bolt,
Ten City,
Ultra Naté,
MDC,
Second Layer,
PIL,
Rites of Spring,
Derrick May,
Lower 48,
cv313,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gerry Rafferty,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Faust,
The Names,
Marvin Gaye,
Half Japanese,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.