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 Kuwait and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Saccharine Trust to the punk 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris & Cosey,
Boredoms,
Rufus Thomas,
Ituana,
Pharoah Sanders,
Hot Snakes,
The Fuzztones,
The Grass Roots,
Schoolly D,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Todd Rundgren,
Lalann,
Quantec,
Chrome,
Gong,
Freddie Wadling,
Amazonics,
Marcia Griffiths,
Donny Hathaway,
Stetsasonic,
Drexciya,
Q65,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Technova,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Motions,
Sight & Sound,
The Victims,
Lyres,
Kas Product,
The Five Americans,
Kurtis Blow,
UT,
Gang Gang Dance,
Godley & Creme,
The Dave Clark Five,
Darondo,
Skriet,
Arcadia,
Eric Dolphy,
Soul II Soul,
Rites of Spring,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fortunes,
The Techniques,
China Crisis,
Japan,
Ronan,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Siglo XX,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Mantronix,
Toni Rubio,
Lightning Bolt,
Gang of Four,
Glenn Branca,
Neil Young,
Sun City Girls,
Joyce Sims,
James White and The Blacks,
Audionom,
Man Eating Sloth,
Spandau Ballet,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.