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 Chad and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 harpsichord 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 The Remains to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Evens. All the underground hits.
All Los Fastidios tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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?
Anthony Braxton,
Ituana,
Sixth Finger,
Wally Richardson,
Tres Demented,
Bush Tetras,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Fortunes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Association,
Arthur Verocai,
Mark Hollis,
Newcleus,
Donny Hathaway,
Michelle Simonal,
The Selecter,
Todd Rundgren,
The Gap Band,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eddi Front,
Index,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Fire Engines,
Quadrant,
Cal Tjader,
Absolute Body Control,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ten City,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bronski Beat,
Leonard Cohen,
EPMD,
Supertramp,
Roy Ayers,
Scientists,
Lebanon Hanover,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
China Crisis,
Visage,
48th St. Collective,
Sight & Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Schoolly D,
Quando Quango,
Royal Trux,
The Real Kids,
Talk Talk,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Danielle Patucci,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Skaos,
Cecil Taylor,
Reuben Wilson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Whodini,
Isaac Hayes,
L. Decosne,
Lightning Bolt,
H. Thieme,
Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls, Theoretical Girls.
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.