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 Lesotho and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 sitar 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 Jimmy McGriff to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pharoah Sanders,
Agitation Free,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Moby Grape,
Mission of Burma,
Buzzcocks,
Grey Daturas,
Swell Maps,
Spandau Ballet,
the Germs,
The Wake,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
UT,
Magma,
Lyres,
Chrome,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Intrusion,
Babytalk,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gastr Del Sol,
Guru Guru,
Scientists,
These Immortal Souls,
JFA,
Iggy Pop,
Terry Callier,
Parry Music,
Roger Hodgson,
Masters at Work,
The Real Kids,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Byron Stingily,
The Neon Judgement,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Saccharine Trust,
Crooked Eye,
Clear Light,
Darondo,
Moebius,
Reagan Youth,
The Music Machine,
The Martian,
Massinfluence,
Minor Threat,
Trumans Water,
The Monochrome Set,
Sun City Girls,
Wire,
Patti Smith,
Eyeless In Gaza,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
ABBA,
Brothers Johnson,
Reuben Wilson,
Deadbeat,
Aswad,
X-102,
Danielle Patucci,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.