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 India and from Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Depeche Mode to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Associates,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Gap Band,
Joyce Sims,
Accadde A,
Pagans,
Flipper,
Massinfluence,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Blackbyrds,
Dorothy Ashby,
Neil Young,
The Beau Brummels,
Banda Bassotti,
Drexciya,
David McCallum,
cv313,
Malaria!,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Flash Fearless,
Brand Nubian,
Nirvana,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
These Immortal Souls,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Unrelated Segments,
Guru Guru,
The Zeros,
New Age Steppers,
The Move,
The Fuzztones,
Cybotron,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camouflage,
Albert Ayler,
Echospace,
Johnny Osbourne,
Yusef Lateef,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Slits,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Danielle Patucci,
The Smiths,
Blancmange,
MC5,
Delta 5,
Masters at Work,
Gong,
Niagra,
Bill Wells,
The Offenders,
Black Flag,
Slave,
Sandy B,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Monks,
Sällskapet,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.