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 Netherlands and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 guitar 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 Parry Music to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pretty Things record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
The Beau Brummels,
Josef K,
Sun Ra,
Fluxion,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Talk Talk,
The Techniques,
Andrew Hill,
Swell Maps,
Terrestrial Tones,
Matthew Bourne,
The Human League,
Morten Harket,
Niagra,
Circle Jerks,
Toni Rubio,
The Fall,
Marcia Griffiths,
Rakim,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bill Wells,
Eddi Front,
Dead Boys,
the Human League,
Lower 48,
The Pop Group,
New Age Steppers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Marshall Jefferson,
D'Angelo,
Mission of Burma,
Al Stewart,
Terry Callier,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Johnny Clarke,
Visage,
The Walker Brothers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DJ Sneak,
Boogie Down Productions,
Barry Ungar,
Pylon,
Aloha Tigers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Oneida,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eric Copeland,
X-102,
Archie Shepp,
OOIOO,
Roxette,
Whodini,
The Cure,
B.T. Express,
Sandy B,
Symarip,
the Soft Cell,
Minnie Riperton,
The Standells,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.