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 Jordan and from Johannesburg.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 arpeggiator 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 Eyeless In Gaza to the crunk 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 Chris & Cosey. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fugs,
MC5,
The Litter,
Groovy Waters,
Bauhaus,
Boogie Down Productions,
Peter & Gordon,
Barrington Levy,
Little Man,
Matthew Halsall,
Oneida,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gong,
Wings,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sonic Youth,
Newcleus,
Bootsy Collins,
Marshall Jefferson,
Morten Harket,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Average White Band,
Barbara Tucker,
Rakim,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Colin Newman,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Youth Brigade,
Wolf Eyes,
Lyres,
Boz Scaggs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
B.T. Express,
Severed Heads,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Residents,
Connie Case,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Janne Schatter,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Slick Rick,
Skaos,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Misunderstood,
Cal Tjader,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mars,
the Human League,
Rites of Spring,
The Buckinghams,
The Black Dice,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rapeman,
Clear Light,
Technova,
Amon Düül,
Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock, Eli Mardock.
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.