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 Norway 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Kerri Chandler to the grunge 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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sexual Harrassment 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Don Cherry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
Deakin,
The Seeds,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gang Starr,
Monolake,
Model 500,
cv313,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sonny Sharrock,
UT,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magma,
R.M.O.,
New Order,
Sun Ra,
The Doors,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Blackbyrds,
Newcleus,
Siglo XX,
Donald Byrd,
Average White Band,
Pole,
Davy DMX,
Mandrill,
Bad Manners,
Jandek,
L. Decosne,
Gong,
Peter & Gordon,
Yazoo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Franke,
Nils Olav,
Camouflage,
X-Ray Spex,
Flipper,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Cybotron,
Excepter,
Oneida,
Yaz,
Duran Duran,
Absolute Body Control,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Quadrant,
Hoover,
Barrington Levy,
The Gap Band,
Popol Vuh,
Zapp,
Ponytail,
Q and Not U,
Lucky Dragons,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.