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 Cyprus and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Faust to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Peter & Gordon,
Outsiders,
The Red Krayola,
Donald Byrd,
Mars,
Hashim,
Terrestrial Tones,
Newcleus,
Blake Baxter,
Marvin Gaye,
The Victims,
Unrelated Segments,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Dual Sessions,
The Real Kids,
Gang of Four,
Nas,
The Knickerbockers,
Ludus,
Blossom Toes,
The Barracudas,
Y Pants,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
David McCallum,
Peter and Kerry,
The Tremeloes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Steve Hackett,
Circle Jerks,
Althea and Donna,
Wasted Youth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Selecter,
Audionom,
Mandrill,
Sonic Youth,
Q and Not U,
The Count Five,
Icehouse,
Monolake,
Youth Brigade,
Jeff Lynne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pylon,
Moebius,
The Remains,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
kango's stein massive,
Roxette,
Ice-T,
Judy Mowatt,
Stereo Dub,
Scion,
The Sonics,
Reuben Wilson,
Qualms,
Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May, Derrick May.
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.