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 Grenada and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Glasgow and Mexico City.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the techno 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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 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 Walker Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
X-102,
Nico,
Nick Fraelich,
Country Teasers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Monks,
The Durutti Column,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Tom Boy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Steve Hackett,
Marshall Jefferson,
Icehouse,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fortunes,
Moss Icon,
Roger Hodgson,
Tomorrow,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Doobie Brothers,
John Holt,
The Leaves,
Radiohead,
Infiniti,
Jesper Dahlback,
Matthew Bourne,
Pagans,
Leonard Cohen,
L. Decosne,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Skriet,
Agent Orange,
Cluster,
Cal Tjader,
The Skatalites,
Dennis Brown,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Count Five,
T. Rex,
Average White Band,
Neil Young,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
D'Angelo,
Interpol,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eden Ahbez,
Todd Rundgren,
Eddi Front,
PIL,
Absolute Body Control,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Cowsills,
K-Klass,
Subhumans,
Minutemen,
Lucky Dragons,
MC5,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Spandau Ballet,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.