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 Egypt and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Beijing.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Swans to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
Cybotron,
Lee Hazlewood,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Monks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Magma,
Nas,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Donny Hathaway,
James White and The Blacks,
Rotary Connection,
Ornette Coleman,
Unwound,
Subhumans,
Prince Buster,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Velvet Underground,
Panda Bear,
David Axelrod,
DJ Style,
Clear Light,
Marmalade,
Hot Snakes,
Freddie Wadling,
Ultravox,
The Mummies,
the Bar-Kays,
Flamin' Groovies,
Black Pus,
Newcleus,
Barbara Tucker,
ABC,
Reuben Wilson,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ossler,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Glenn Branca,
The Monochrome Set,
The Black Dice,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
John Holt,
Zapp,
Hasil Adkins,
Piero Umiliani,
Judy Mowatt,
MC5,
Brothers Johnson,
Altered Images,
Vladislav Delay,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pierre Henry,
Sonny Sharrock,
X-102,
The Gories,
Josef K,
Rufus Thomas,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scion,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.