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 Hungary and from Tokyo.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Eric Dolphy,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Skriet,
A Certain Ratio,
Lou Reed,
Johnny Clarke,
Chris Corsano,
Banda Bassotti,
The Associates,
Soulsonic Force,
Infiniti,
The Beau Brummels,
Ronan,
Big Daddy Kane,
Glenn Branca,
Lou Christie,
Cal Tjader,
Sonic Youth,
Judy Mowatt,
Interpol,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barrington Levy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Alison Limerick,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jeff Lynne,
Sam Rivers,
Scott Walker,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gil Scott Heron,
Marine Girls,
Gang Green,
Ken Boothe,
The Fall,
DNA,
The Tremeloes,
the Slits,
Jeff Mills,
The Slits,
Can,
Crime,
Byron Stingily,
DJ Style,
Soul Sonic Force,
Nils Olav,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gerry Rafferty,
This Heat,
Moebius,
La Düsseldorf,
Quadrant,
E-Dancer,
Michelle Simonal,
Ten City,
Reuben Wilson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Half Japanese,
Hoover,
Faraquet,
Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance.
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.