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 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Happenings. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gong record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Al Stewart,
The Residents,
R.M.O.,
One Last Wish,
Black Pus,
Essential Logic,
Nik Kershaw,
John Holt,
Hasil Adkins,
Aaron Thompson,
Tommy Roe,
Swell Maps,
10cc,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mantronix,
Sound Behaviour,
Moebius,
Vainqueur,
Joe Finger,
Black Sheep,
CMW,
K-Klass,
Can,
Country Teasers,
AZ,
Dave Gahan,
Scratch Acid,
Sun Ra,
Toni Rubio,
Ossler,
The Techniques,
The Busters,
Carl Craig,
David McCallum,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Faraquet,
Desert Stars,
Peter and Kerry,
Japan,
Erykah Badu,
New Age Steppers,
Black Moon,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Grass Roots,
Gichy Dan,
Sparks,
the Sonics,
Jeru the Damaja,
Half Japanese,
Neil Young,
UT,
Lightning Bolt,
The Offenders,
Altered Images,
Nick Fraelich,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ludus, Ludus, Ludus, Ludus.
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.