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 Maldives and from Lille.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Altered Images to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
The Divine Comedy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barbara Tucker,
Brass Construction,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bronski Beat,
Boredoms,
The Slits,
Ituana,
Outsiders,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Hashim,
Section 25,
Talk Talk,
Essential Logic,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gang of Four,
Sun Ra,
Guru Guru,
Organ,
X-Ray Spex,
Amon Düül,
The Doors,
Warren Ellis,
Wire,
Amazonics,
The Birthday Party,
Zero Boys,
Lakeside,
Kevin Saunderson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rekid,
In Retrospect,
Girls At Our Best!,
Average White Band,
Rufus Thomas,
Gil Scott Heron,
Pylon,
Janne Schatter,
Al Stewart,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
H. Thieme,
10cc,
Faraquet,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marine Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Jacob Miller,
The Associates,
China Crisis,
Wasted Youth,
Swell Maps,
Arcadia,
The Offenders,
Stereo Dub,
UT,
Accadde A,
Malaria!,
Audionom,
Mr. Review,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy.
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.