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 Peru and from Hong Kong.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 mellotron 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the funk 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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 48th St. Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Hood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
FM Einheit,
Electric Prunes,
the Swans,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Walker Brothers,
Fatback Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brand Nubian,
KRS-One,
The Mojo Men,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Schoolly D,
Piero Umiliani,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dawn Penn,
Stockholm Monsters,
Prince Buster,
Gang of Four,
Man Parrish,
The Associates,
Von Mondo,
Rhythm & Sound,
Banda Bassotti,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Connie Case,
Grandmaster Flash,
Marc Almond,
Lucky Dragons,
Visage,
Model 500,
Hasil Adkins,
Radio Birdman,
Whodini,
Gang Starr,
Organ,
Rotary Connection,
Nico,
Radiohead,
Heaven 17,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Matthew Halsall,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Outsiders,
The Leaves,
Deakin,
Masters at Work,
Lightning Bolt,
a-ha,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Sexual Harrassment,
Graham Central Station,
Oneida,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Pantaleimon,
Grey Daturas,
Severed Heads,
John Foxx,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.