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 Armenia and from Paris.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar 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 Peter & Gordon to the grime 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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Coltrane,
Model 500,
X-102,
Tim Buckley,
Panda Bear,
Barbara Tucker,
Faust,
The Human League,
Blossom Toes,
Lebanon Hanover,
Harmonia,
The Doobie Brothers,
JFA,
The Kinks,
Desert Stars,
Index,
Idris Muhammad,
The Wake,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Stooges,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Associates,
The Motions,
the Human League,
Boredoms,
Subhumans,
These Immortal Souls,
The Fuzztones,
Pet Shop Boys,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Smog,
David Bowie,
Black Sheep,
Fluxion,
X-Ray Spex,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Barracudas,
Joensuu 1685,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ossler,
Davy DMX,
Donald Byrd,
Surgeon,
Duran Duran,
Lucky Dragons,
Nils Olav,
Amon Düül,
Spandau Ballet,
Malaria!,
Byron Stingily,
Wally Richardson,
Amazonics,
Procol Harum,
Radiohead,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.