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 Sudan and from Portland.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 harpsichord 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 Larry & the Blue Notes 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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxette record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro 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 linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T. Rex,
Unwound,
Sun Ra,
Ituana,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nico,
Panda Bear,
Funky Four + One,
Mars,
Barry Ungar,
Y Pants,
The Happenings,
Rufus Thomas,
Scratch Acid,
Reagan Youth,
Arab on Radar,
Barrington Levy,
Quadrant,
Blancmange,
Vladislav Delay,
Aswad,
Patti Smith,
Morten Harket,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tim Buckley,
The Tremeloes,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Outsiders,
Glambeats Corp.,
Harmonia,
the Association,
Bronski Beat,
Depeche Mode,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
John Cale,
The Residents,
Sound Behaviour,
The Human League,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sight & Sound,
Marvin Gaye,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jacob Miller,
Girls At Our Best!,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Sonics,
Fat Boys,
Brass Construction,
Man Parrish,
Chris Corsano,
Maleditus Sound,
Sparks,
Charles Mingus,
Janne Schatter,
Pierre Henry,
EPMD,
Bobby Sherman,
DNA,
Jawbox,
Fad Gadget,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.