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 Guyana and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Black Flag to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Prunes,
Zero Boys,
Hot Snakes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Gap Band,
Kerri Chandler,
B.T. Express,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Tommy Roe,
Jerry's Kids,
MC5,
Cecil Taylor,
Sam Rivers,
The Invisible,
The Dirtbombs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Metal Thangz,
The Electric Prunes,
Judy Mowatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Quantec,
The Kinks,
Rites of Spring,
Siglo XX,
Terrestrial Tones,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Black Flag,
Lakeside,
Television,
Nils Olav,
Lebanon Hanover,
Oblivians,
Todd Terry,
Suburban Knight,
The Tremeloes,
Dark Day,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jandek,
Spoonie Gee,
Rod Modell,
The Detroit Cobras,
Derrick Morgan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
R.M.O.,
Skriet,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
T.S.O.L.,
The Searchers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bill Wells,
The Sonics,
The Gories,
Basic Channel,
The Pretty Things,
The Gladiators,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Isaac Hayes,
Unrelated Segments,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.