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 Saudi Arabia and from Seoul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Cosmic Jokers. All the underground hits.
All Ralphi Rosario tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tomorrow,
Rekid,
The Gap Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Brothers Johnson,
Gichy Dan,
Wolf Eyes,
Barry Ungar,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Pus,
Sun City Girls,
John Foxx,
Hardrive,
Mantronix,
Massinfluence,
Average White Band,
Bootsy Collins,
Arthur Verocai,
Delta 5,
Thee Headcoats,
Infiniti,
Johnny Clarke,
DJ Sneak,
The Evens,
L. Decosne,
Minor Threat,
Roger Hodgson,
Nirvana,
Metal Thangz,
Quantec,
Dave Gahan,
The Zeros,
Mr. Review,
The Monks,
Jandek,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
cv313,
Gabor Szabo,
Rapeman,
Altered Images,
David McCallum,
The American Breed,
Skriet,
Warren Ellis,
the Germs,
Janne Schatter,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Fuzztones,
AZ,
Public Enemy,
Fatback Band,
These Immortal Souls,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Associates,
Grey Daturas,
Don Cherry,
The Martian,
The Dead C,
The Kinks,
Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier, Terry Callier.
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.