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 Poland and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Delta 5 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bronski Beat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Cal Tjader,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Gerry Rafferty,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gong,
Swell Maps,
Radio Birdman,
Gabor Szabo,
The Searchers,
David McCallum,
Franke,
David Bowie,
Sound Behaviour,
Gregory Isaacs,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
10cc,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Pretty Things,
Easy Going,
The Raincoats,
The Happenings,
Scion,
Funky Four + One,
The Gladiators,
the Association,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Warsaw,
Motorama,
The Wake,
Marshall Jefferson,
Massinfluence,
Absolute Body Control,
Tears for Fears,
Tubeway Army,
Ludus,
New Order,
Tim Buckley,
Leonard Cohen,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Brand Nubian,
Judy Mowatt,
June of 44,
Sun Ra,
Chris & Cosey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Music Machine,
Wolf Eyes,
Robert Hood,
ABC,
Delta 5,
Morten Harket,
The Knickerbockers,
Anthony Braxton,
Can,
Urselle,
Roy Ayers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Glenn Branca,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.