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 Cyprus and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Audionom to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Sexual Harrassment tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord 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 marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Banda Bassotti,
Agitation Free,
Eddi Front,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric Copeland,
New Order,
Saccharine Trust,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bobby Womack,
Pantaleimon,
Fugazi,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Hashim,
The Smoke,
Marvin Gaye,
Throbbing Gristle,
Barry Ungar,
cv313,
June of 44,
Excepter,
Metal Thangz,
Grey Daturas,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Joyce Sims,
Joe Finger,
Harmonia,
The American Breed,
Agent Orange,
LL Cool J,
The New Christs,
Cybotron,
Stetsasonic,
Ponytail,
Johnny Clarke,
Animal Collective,
Tom Boy,
Steve Hackett,
Gong,
E-Dancer,
Stiv Bators,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Joe Smooth,
Joy Division,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fall,
Gerry Rafferty,
Piero Umiliani,
Eve St. Jones,
Roxy Music,
Clear Light,
the Normal,
Nick Fraelich,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Alphaville,
Alice Coltrane,
Wally Richardson,
The Techniques,
Harpers Bizarre,
Arthur Verocai,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Amon Düül II,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.