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 Sweden and from New York.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 La Düsseldorf to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mojo Men record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
The Skatalites,
Hasil Adkins,
These Immortal Souls,
Johnny Clarke,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Peter and Kerry,
John Cale,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Average White Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Bizarre Inc.,
Quantec,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pylon,
Gichy Dan,
Dark Day,
Derrick Morgan,
Glenn Branca,
Y Pants,
ABBA,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Guru Guru,
The Divine Comedy,
Lakeside,
Dorothy Ashby,
Newcleus,
Iggy Pop,
Erasure,
Unrelated Segments,
Man Parrish,
The Walker Brothers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Niagra,
FM Einheit,
Simply Red,
Danielle Patucci,
Second Layer,
Ponytail,
Dave Gahan,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Moby Grape,
Livin' Joy,
China Crisis,
L. Decosne,
Gabor Szabo,
Roxy Music,
Bootsy Collins,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
June of 44,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Loose Ends,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Scan 7,
Charles Mingus,
Fatback Band,
Stereo Dub,
Moss Icon,
Juan Atkins,
Harry Pussy,
The Litter,
Piero Umiliani,
Avey Tare,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.