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 Lille.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Liliput to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kango’s Stein Massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kas Product,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Agent Orange,
Hashim,
Crispian St. Peters,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
June Days,
Mo-Dettes,
Roxy Music,
John Cale,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Girls At Our Best!,
Max Romeo,
the Human League,
Delon & Dalcan,
Basic Channel,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tomorrow,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Misunderstood,
Rakim,
Glambeats Corp.,
the Normal,
Prince Buster,
Skarface,
Reuben Wilson,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bootsy Collins,
FM Einheit,
Nico,
Scott Walker,
The Kinks,
New Order,
The Modern Lovers,
Underground Resistance,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mandrill,
The Fuzztones,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
10cc,
Ten City,
Schoolly D,
Gang of Four,
Unrelated Segments,
Aaron Thompson,
The Saints,
Rosa Yemen,
The Toasters,
The Pretty Things,
Funkadelic,
LL Cool J,
Lungfish,
The Fugs,
Organ,
Scratch Acid,
Ice-T,
Henry Cow,
The Invisible,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.