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 Macedonia and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Zero Boys to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Associates,
Minutemen,
Skaos,
Big Daddy Kane,
Audionom,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sparks,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Peter and Kerry,
Slave,
Crash Course in Science,
Robert Hood,
Echospace,
Crispy Ambulance,
Yazoo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kerrie Biddell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Donny Hathaway,
The Fall,
MDC,
The Five Americans,
Animal Collective,
The United States of America,
Crispian St. Peters,
Scan 7,
Lalann,
a-ha,
Pole,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Darondo,
Bobby Sherman,
Lungfish,
Ken Boothe,
Trumans Water,
Terrestrial Tones,
Brass Construction,
Matthew Halsall,
The Fortunes,
Simply Red,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Royal Trux,
Ultimate Spinach,
Black Flag,
Liliput,
Gang Green,
Lower 48,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Graham Central Station,
Agent Orange,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Fire Engines,
Bob Dylan,
Moss Icon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pere Ubu,
Roxy Music,
Chris & Cosey,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.