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 Tonga and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 mellotron 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 The Monks to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sandy B,
Minutemen,
Banda Bassotti,
Dual Sessions,
The Fugs,
Outsiders,
Cluster,
Todd Terry,
Easy Going,
Carl Craig,
Ronnie Foster,
Sound Behaviour,
The J.B.'s,
Brass Construction,
Average White Band,
Zapp,
Television Personalities,
Black Sheep,
Underground Resistance,
Black Flag,
KRS-One,
Howard Jones,
Monolake,
the Fania All-Stars,
Supertramp,
FM Einheit,
Davy DMX,
Kaleidoscope,
Andrew Hill,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Moleskins,
Gang of Four,
Delta 5,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sugar Minott,
Johnny Clarke,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Negative Approach,
David Axelrod,
Cecil Taylor,
Minnie Riperton,
Lou Christie,
The Gun Club,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Dave Clark Five,
New York Dolls,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Yellowson,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Selecter,
The Invisible,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Anthony Braxton,
Lakeside,
Gang Green,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.