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 Costa Rica and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Pierre Henry to the grime 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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Q and Not U,
Accadde A,
Hasil Adkins,
the Germs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Quadrant,
Minny Pops,
Thee Headcoats,
Quando Quango,
Godley & Creme,
Peter & Gordon,
Aaron Thompson,
Danielle Patucci,
The Skatalites,
Easy Going,
Kerri Chandler,
Crash Course in Science,
The Searchers,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Mighty Diamonds,
David Bowie,
Japan,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Durutti Column,
Dave Gahan,
Aloha Tigers,
FM Einheit,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Y Pants,
Ludus,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Girls At Our Best!,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wally Richardson,
Tropical Tobacco,
the Fania All-Stars,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Mad Mike,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Trojans,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Gang Green,
China Crisis,
John Lydon,
Andrew Hill,
The Smoke,
June of 44,
Faust,
Albert Ayler,
Youth Brigade,
Section 25,
Sonic Youth,
The Vogues,
Funky Four + One,
Eric Copeland,
the Human League,
The Red Krayola,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.