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 Haiti and from Lyon.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Dennis Brown to the grunge 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 Jeru the Damaja. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Graham Central Station,
Aswad,
Television Personalities,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Bar-Kays,
Terrestrial Tones,
Arab on Radar,
Danielle Patucci,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Kinks,
Gabor Szabo,
Eurythmics,
Niagra,
The Seeds,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
DJ Style,
Bang On A Can,
Technova,
Dennis Brown,
Ituana,
The Neon Judgement,
Main Source,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Skarface,
The Fuzztones,
Rotary Connection,
Urselle,
Depeche Mode,
Man Eating Sloth,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Carl Craig,
Bill Wells,
Lungfish,
Oneida,
Patti Smith,
Gang Starr,
Sister Nancy,
Harry Pussy,
The Monochrome Set,
Erasure,
Howard Jones,
Eden Ahbez,
Babytalk,
The Saints,
Eli Mardock,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jesper Dahlback,
Slave,
Idris Muhammad,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Gories,
The Evens,
Sun Ra,
Chris Corsano,
Ludus,
Sexual Harrassment,
Index,
Deadbeat,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.