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 Germany and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Aswad to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Enemy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Tommy Roe,
Wire,
Fear,
Connie Case,
Isaac Hayes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ronan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Television,
Crooked Eye,
Jawbox,
Joensuu 1685,
Guru Guru,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kevin Saunderson,
Carl Craig,
Rufus Thomas,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Matthew Bourne,
Bad Manners,
Eric Copeland,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joe Finger,
B.T. Express,
Todd Terry,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ultravox,
Dual Sessions,
Jeff Mills,
The United States of America,
Andrew Hill,
Dark Day,
Roxy Music,
X-Ray Spex,
cv313,
The Selecter,
JFA,
Fluxion,
Masters at Work,
Easy Going,
Mary Jane Girls,
Section 25,
Al Stewart,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Angels of Light,
Camberwell Now,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Star Department,
Barry Ungar,
kango's stein massive,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bronski Beat,
Marmalade,
Brand Nubian,
Mandrill,
Agitation Free,
Kas Product,
Black Bananas,
In Retrospect,
Dead Boys,
Eurythmics,
The Modern Lovers,
Yaz,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.