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 Burkina and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 spring reverb 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 Circle Jerks to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glambeats Corp. 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 rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
DJ Style,
Aaron Thompson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Alison Limerick,
Isaac Hayes,
Sound Behaviour,
Tim Buckley,
Nirvana,
Lebanon Hanover,
Public Enemy,
This Heat,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Average White Band,
Terry Callier,
Hashim,
The Invisible,
The Monochrome Set,
These Immortal Souls,
X-101,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cheater Slicks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Inner City,
Don Cherry,
The Monks,
Max Romeo,
Aural Exciters,
The Cure,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Visage,
Moss Icon,
The Residents,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deakin,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Groovy Waters,
Magazine,
Lower 48,
Pantytec,
Essential Logic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jeff Lynne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Rakim,
Vainqueur,
Kurtis Blow,
Symarip,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bobby Sherman,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eli Mardock,
Godley & Creme,
The Happenings,
Radio Birdman,
Rotary Connection,
Idris Muhammad,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Dorothy Ashby,
Deadbeat,
Sister Nancy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.