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 Senegal and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 Copenhagen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 linndrum 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 Swell Maps to the dance 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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Offenders,
Robert Wyatt,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dual Sessions,
Essential Logic,
The Fortunes,
Basic Channel,
Rapeman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nico,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Albert Ayler,
Cymande,
The Human League,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eve St. Jones,
Sandy B,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
In Retrospect,
48th St. Collective,
Sparks,
Echospace,
Bang On A Can,
Kaleidoscope,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Smiths,
Lou Christie,
Mantronix,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ituana,
Ronan,
Trumans Water,
Schoolly D,
Tomorrow,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Crime,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Barbara Tucker,
Gang of Four,
Groovy Waters,
The Vogues,
Brand Nubian,
Reagan Youth,
John Holt,
Sound Behaviour,
The Evens,
The Zeros,
Inner City,
Youth Brigade,
Can,
Suicide,
Arcadia,
Accadde A,
Rosa Yemen,
Moby Grape,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sarah Menescal,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.