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 Uganda and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All The Cure tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon 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?
Toni Rubio,
Soft Machine,
New Age Steppers,
David Axelrod,
Bizarre Inc.,
Aural Exciters,
Isaac Hayes,
Lyres,
Pagans,
Fat Boys,
Young Marble Giants,
Deepchord,
Drexciya,
Sixth Finger,
KRS-One,
Lou Christie,
ABC,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Silicon Teens,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Interpol,
Model 500,
Panda Bear,
Lalo Schifrin,
Moby Grape,
Flipper,
Suicide,
Chris & Cosey,
Gang of Four,
Althea and Donna,
Moss Icon,
Altered Images,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Sonics,
Urselle,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Michelle Simonal,
Robert Wyatt,
Marvin Gaye,
Mad Mike,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Arcadia,
The Doors,
Anakelly,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Robert Hood,
Grey Daturas,
Khruangbin,
The Leaves,
the Normal,
Average White Band,
The Five Americans,
Negative Approach,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Black Pus,
Henry Cow,
Adolescents,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Danielle Patucci,
Ronan,
Zapp,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.