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 Moldova and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 rhodes 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 Wire to the jazz 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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Joy Division,
Anthony Braxton,
Main Source,
The Star Department,
Eden Ahbez,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Minnie Riperton,
Susan Cadogan,
Clear Light,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Swans,
Slave,
Mantronix,
Archie Shepp,
The Victims,
Fugazi,
The Velvet Underground,
Procol Harum,
Altered Images,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Ken Boothe,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Heaven 17,
Danielle Patucci,
The Mummies,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Wasted Youth,
The Black Dice,
Fela Kuti,
The Music Machine,
Moebius,
Pagans,
The Moody Blues,
Section 25,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Piero Umiliani,
Cybotron,
Letta Mbulu,
Patti Smith,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Gap Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Nick Fraelich,
Gang Starr,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Soft Machine,
Con Funk Shun,
Young Marble Giants,
Q65,
Terry Callier,
The Residents,
Marmalade,
Tim Buckley,
Rufus Thomas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Mojo Men,
Matthew Halsall,
Lyres,
Skarface,
The Associates,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.