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 Paraguay and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 guitar 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 Pantaleimon to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Babytalk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dead Boys,
June Days,
Magma,
Kurtis Blow,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Terry Callier,
Janne Schatter,
Dual Sessions,
Roy Ayers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
David Axelrod,
Marc Almond,
Brick,
Ronnie Foster,
Hoover,
Model 500,
Grey Daturas,
Nirvana,
Essential Logic,
Sällskapet,
Mars,
One Last Wish,
DJ Style,
The Grass Roots,
Roxy Music,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Hashim,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
X-101,
Aloha Tigers,
Nas,
Massinfluence,
The Associates,
Depeche Mode,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gastr Del Sol,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fugazi,
Warsaw,
U.S. Maple,
Charles Mingus,
The Cure,
Theoretical Girls,
Aswad,
Pierre Henry,
Tropical Tobacco,
Metal Thangz,
Don Cherry,
Altered Images,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Franke,
The Saints,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Dave Clark Five,
Television,
Sun Ra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.