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 Gabon and from Philadelphia.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 Bob Dylan to the disco 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 Cabaret Voltaire. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Massinfluence,
The Tremeloes,
Mantronix,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Gap Band,
The Fire Engines,
Anthony Braxton,
Camberwell Now,
Roxette,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nik Kershaw,
Zero Boys,
The Dave Clark Five,
Blancmange,
Todd Terry,
The Grass Roots,
Soft Machine,
The Electric Prunes,
Ultra Naté,
John Foxx,
Robert Hood,
Terry Callier,
Derrick Morgan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Reuben Wilson,
Carl Craig,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Normal,
Erasure,
Gil Scott Heron,
Yusef Lateef,
Lalann,
Robert Görl,
Matthew Halsall,
Warsaw,
Minutemen,
Roy Ayers,
Scientists,
Blossom Toes,
Neu!,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Motions,
Lungfish,
Magma,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Basic Channel,
Dennis Brown,
Main Source,
Maurizio,
Banda Bassotti,
In Retrospect,
The Wake,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fall,
Morten Harket,
New York Dolls,
Drexciya,
Juan Atkins,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.