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 Dominica and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Portland and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Minutemen,
Massinfluence,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bauhaus,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Danielle Patucci,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
David McCallum,
The Modern Lovers,
The Remains,
The Flesh Eaters,
Scott Walker,
Marine Girls,
Funkadelic,
The Fire Engines,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Detroit Cobras,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Kinks,
Sonic Youth,
Al Stewart,
10cc,
Tim Buckley,
Intrusion,
Trumans Water,
Bill Wells,
Stockholm Monsters,
Urselle,
the Slits,
The Five Americans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Idris Muhammad,
Ten City,
The Pretty Things,
R.M.O.,
Black Flag,
The United States of America,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Index,
A Certain Ratio,
Camouflage,
Ultimate Spinach,
Anakelly,
Judy Mowatt,
Accadde A,
Yaz,
Soft Cell,
Joe Finger,
Kerri Chandler,
Quadrant,
Kenny Larkin,
Rakim,
Jeru the Damaja,
Nas,
Lyres,
The Searchers,
Can,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.