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 United States and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 spring reverb 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 Flash Fearless to the jazz 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cameo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Lebanon Hanover,
Stockholm Monsters,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Godley & Creme,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Selecter,
Simply Red,
John Lydon,
Chris & Cosey,
Eden Ahbez,
10cc,
Deakin,
Agent Orange,
Audionom,
Pierre Henry,
The Modern Lovers,
The Buckinghams,
Icehouse,
Mad Mike,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kenny Larkin,
Man Parrish,
kango's stein massive,
Neil Young,
Hashim,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jeff Mills,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Electric Prunes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Invisible,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fela Kuti,
Spoonie Gee,
Bobby Sherman,
Laurel Aitken,
Andrew Hill,
Massinfluence,
Black Bananas,
Scientists,
Television,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Danielle Patucci,
Rapeman,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cybotron,
Boogie Down Productions,
Von Mondo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Yazoo,
Gang Starr,
Kerri Chandler,
Scrapy,
E-Dancer,
Terry Callier,
Carl Craig,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Soulsonic Force,
Wally Richardson,
Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade, Marmalade.
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.