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 Nauru and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Milan.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Offenders to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Deakin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
A Certain Ratio,
John Lydon,
The Barracudas,
Skriet,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Quantec,
Max Romeo,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Moon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Happenings,
Glambeats Corp.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Anthony Braxton,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Index,
Fluxion,
Todd Rundgren,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Circle Jerks,
Altered Images,
Parry Music,
Fad Gadget,
John Cale,
Patti Smith,
Subhumans,
Supertramp,
The Remains,
The Trojans,
The Neon Judgement,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Maleditus Sound,
Carl Craig,
Morten Harket,
The Count Five,
H. Thieme,
Avey Tare,
The Seeds,
Alison Limerick,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Faust,
The Litter,
Quando Quango,
Lakeside,
This Heat,
The J.B.'s,
kango's stein massive,
Bizarre Inc.,
Glenn Branca,
Henry Cow,
Moby Grape,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rosa Yemen,
The Gories,
Interpol,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Niagra,
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.