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 Spain and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 Columbus and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Camouflage to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All These Immortal Souls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
Soft Machine,
Crispian St. Peters,
Rod Modell,
Jimmy McGriff,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Maleditus Sound,
Wally Richardson,
Aaron Thompson,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bob Dylan,
The Moody Blues,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Swell Maps,
Scratch Acid,
Dead Boys,
Main Source,
Black Sheep,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nas,
The Skatalites,
Liliput,
Grey Daturas,
Lower 48,
The Cosmic Jokers,
David Axelrod,
Scientists,
Funky Four + One,
Eric B and Rakim,
Eurythmics,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Royal Trux,
K-Klass,
Urselle,
Thompson Twins,
World's Most,
Flamin' Groovies,
Alison Limerick,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Cure,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joey Negro,
Curtis Mayfield,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Andrew Hill,
Deepchord,
Chris & Cosey,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Angels of Light,
Minnie Riperton,
Bad Manners,
Joy Division,
Ossler,
John Foxx,
Rufus Thomas,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The J.B.'s,
Ken Boothe,
These Immortal Souls,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.