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 Sierra Leone and from Philadelphia.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the rock 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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Arthur Verocai,
U.S. Maple,
Henry Cow,
X-Ray Spex,
UT,
Lou Christie,
Motorama,
Sarah Menescal,
Derrick May,
The Doors,
Porter Ricks,
Funky Four + One,
The Pretty Things,
Kerrie Biddell,
Throbbing Gristle,
Tropical Tobacco,
Zapp,
Byron Stingily,
Brick,
Dual Sessions,
John Foxx,
Ralphi Rosario,
Fat Boys,
Cheater Slicks,
Derrick Morgan,
Sister Nancy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nick Fraelich,
Barry Ungar,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ponytail,
Harpers Bizarre,
Interpol,
Susan Cadogan,
Marvin Gaye,
Rakim,
Technova,
The Modern Lovers,
Camouflage,
Fatback Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Johnny Clarke,
Nik Kershaw,
T. Rex,
Theoretical Girls,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gang of Four,
The Barracudas,
Erasure,
Saccharine Trust,
Los Fastidios,
The Angels of Light,
The Dead C,
Jandek,
Radiohead,
Icehouse,
CMW,
Minny Pops,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.