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 Sudan and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Joe Finger to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Blake Baxter,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hasil Adkins,
Maurizio,
Don Cherry,
Urselle,
Mandrill,
Jandek,
Joe Finger,
Flash Fearless,
Oblivians,
The Golliwogs,
Livin' Joy,
World's Most,
The Monks,
Fad Gadget,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Moody Blues,
Swell Maps,
The Angels of Light,
The Human League,
The Five Americans,
Sight & Sound,
Hashim,
Pet Shop Boys,
Easy Going,
Sam Rivers,
Quando Quango,
Lebanon Hanover,
Ludus,
Agitation Free,
The Count Five,
Gichy Dan,
kango's stein massive,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Harry Pussy,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Young Rascals,
Ronan,
Susan Cadogan,
Sister Nancy,
Brick,
The Toasters,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Smoke,
Lightning Bolt,
Al Stewart,
Minor Threat,
Lou Reed,
Man Parrish,
Bootsy Collins,
Gang Starr,
Massinfluence,
KRS-One,
48th St. Collective,
The Standells,
Laurel Aitken,
Lindisfarne,
Sixth Finger,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.