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 South Africa and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Five Americans to the jazz 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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Lakeside,
Television,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Selecter,
The Toasters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Iggy Pop,
The Victims,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eurythmics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
John Foxx,
Jacques Brel,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Malaria!,
Public Enemy,
Patti Smith,
Yazoo,
The Happenings,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jeff Mills,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dave Gahan,
The Fire Engines,
Oneida,
The Pop Group,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Black Moon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Moebius,
Johnny Osbourne,
Gichy Dan,
In Retrospect,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lalann,
Talk Talk,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Boredoms,
The Gories,
Marc Almond,
Aswad,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Moleskins,
Wire,
Deadbeat,
Morten Harket,
La Düsseldorf,
Altered Images,
Second Layer,
Trumans Water,
The Gladiators,
Kayak,
The Associates,
The Divine Comedy,
10cc,
Flipper,
Carl Craig,
Duran Duran,
Television Personalities,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.