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 Equatorial Guinea and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the funk 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
James White and The Blacks,
Janne Schatter,
The Move,
Ornette Coleman,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kerri Chandler,
Peter and Kerry,
Interpol,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sonic Youth,
Animal Collective,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Stockholm Monsters,
Agitation Free,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fear,
Erasure,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Sonics,
Yusef Lateef,
Guru Guru,
Faust,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
T. Rex,
Tubeway Army,
Wire,
Nik Kershaw,
Arcadia,
Metal Thangz,
Delta 5,
Colin Newman,
A Certain Ratio,
Livin' Joy,
Crash Course in Science,
Albert Ayler,
Los Fastidios,
Patti Smith,
John Foxx,
Joensuu 1685,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
LL Cool J,
The Mummies,
Sparks,
Ohio Players,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Isaac Hayes,
Urselle,
Lou Christie,
The Doors,
Andrew Hill,
Graham Central Station,
X-101,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cybotron,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hoover,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.