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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Heaven 17 to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Das Ding. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tommy Roe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Henry Cow,
Delon & Dalcan,
Minutemen,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Skriet,
Blake Baxter,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Q65,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Organ,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Tears for Fears,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Chris & Cosey,
Iggy Pop,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Yusef Lateef,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
cv313,
This Heat,
A Certain Ratio,
the Germs,
Los Fastidios,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Slave,
The New Christs,
Newcleus,
Stetsasonic,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fear,
Peter and Kerry,
Babytalk,
Intrusion,
The Fire Engines,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Mission of Burma,
Surgeon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Godley & Creme,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cheater Slicks,
Bronski Beat,
H. Thieme,
China Crisis,
Massinfluence,
Sex Pistols,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Procol Harum,
Nick Fraelich,
T. Rex,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pantytec,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Zero Boys,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.