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 Liberia and from Madrid.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Blackbyrds to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl 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 spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Warren Ellis,
Anakelly,
Main Source,
Scan 7,
Kas Product,
Amon Düül,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Chrome,
Quando Quango,
Easy Going,
Rapeman,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nico,
The Moody Blues,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Standells,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Chris & Cosey,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Black Pus,
The Real Kids,
The Cramps,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Residents,
Goldenarms,
The Invisible,
Arab on Radar,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Skriet,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cecil Taylor,
Los Fastidios,
U.S. Maple,
Rekid,
Rites of Spring,
Harpers Bizarre,
Saccharine Trust,
Von Mondo,
DJ Style,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Doors,
Stereo Dub,
Deakin,
Throbbing Gristle,
Aswad,
Banda Bassotti,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The New Christs,
Y Pants,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Cluster,
The Tremeloes,
The Knickerbockers,
Dawn Penn,
Nirvana,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.