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 East Timor and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Stockholm.
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 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Average White Band. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gian Franco Pienzio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kayak,
Country Teasers,
Nirvana,
Monks,
Thee Headcoats,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rod Modell,
Blossom Toes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sarah Menescal,
The Techniques,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Pulsallama,
Fluxion,
Robert Hood,
Zapp,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Derrick May,
Stereo Dub,
Crispy Ambulance,
Infiniti,
Eric Dolphy,
The Evens,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Knickerbockers,
T.S.O.L.,
Rosa Yemen,
Tim Buckley,
Dawn Penn,
Curtis Mayfield,
Kool Moe Dee,
Agitation Free,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tomorrow,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Icehouse,
The Dave Clark Five,
Slave,
Hashim,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jawbox,
Nick Fraelich,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Blancmange,
Bang On A Can,
Ludus,
Outsiders,
The New Christs,
Aswad,
Lalann,
The Kinks,
Pere Ubu,
John Lydon,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Gap Band,
Eurythmics,
Desert Stars,
The Grass Roots,
Cluster,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.