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 Tonga and from Edmonton.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family 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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Lower 48 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erykah Badu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Eric Copeland,
Arab on Radar,
Moss Icon,
Sandy B,
kango's stein massive,
Basic Channel,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Grauzone,
Quadrant,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mission of Burma,
Pagans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Associates,
Niagra,
The Young Rascals,
The Happenings,
Yusef Lateef,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bob Dylan,
Index,
Bizarre Inc.,
Outsiders,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gregory Isaacs,
Idris Muhammad,
the Normal,
Lou Reed,
Symarip,
Fela Kuti,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Masters at Work,
Boredoms,
Robert Wyatt,
Los Fastidios,
OOIOO,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
PIL,
Mantronix,
Dawn Penn,
Model 500,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Young Marble Giants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aswad,
Lakeside,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Evens,
Ice-T,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Rites of Spring,
Tim Buckley,
The Five Americans,
Section 25,
The Misunderstood,
Bauhaus,
The Busters,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo.
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.