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 East Timor and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lucky Dragons to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Drive Like Jehu. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Public Image Ltd.,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Association,
Mandrill,
Harmonia,
Metal Thangz,
Oblivians,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mo-Dettes,
Massinfluence,
Reuben Wilson,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pantaleimon,
Prince Buster,
10cc,
China Crisis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Kerri Chandler,
Siglo XX,
Bluetip,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sun City Girls,
Harry Pussy,
Lalann,
Monks,
The Saints,
Ralphi Rosario,
Roxy Music,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bootsy Collins,
Ten City,
The Human League,
Hoover,
The Names,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Slits,
Toni Rubio,
Essential Logic,
One Last Wish,
Darondo,
Girls At Our Best!,
Blossom Toes,
Marc Almond,
Spandau Ballet,
Connie Case,
Laurel Aitken,
Jeff Mills,
Anthony Braxton,
Vainqueur,
Arcadia,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Move,
Animal Collective,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Amazonics,
Ken Boothe,
Fad Gadget,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lightning Bolt,
Blake Baxter,
Sam Rivers,
Television, Television, Television, Television.
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.