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 Somalia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Donald Fagen 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 Sun City Girls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Monolake,
The Black Dice,
The Electric Prunes,
Los Fastidios,
John Coltrane,
Jeru the Damaja,
Moebius,
Inner City,
Quantec,
Loose Ends,
Basic Channel,
Dennis Brown,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Wally Richardson,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dave Gahan,
Leonard Cohen,
Neil Young,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Swans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Connie Case,
Crime,
The Slits,
Cluster,
The Move,
Man Parrish,
Eli Mardock,
One Last Wish,
Yusef Lateef,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
A Certain Ratio,
Stetsasonic,
Yaz,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Moby Grape,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ultra Naté,
The Five Americans,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rakim,
Brass Construction,
Minutemen,
Maurizio,
Fatback Band,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jacob Miller,
Wolf Eyes,
Donald Byrd,
Saccharine Trust,
Radiohead,
Robert Wyatt,
Jesper Dahlback,
Hot Snakes,
Anthony Braxton,
The Knickerbockers,
Ossler,
Soft Machine,
Stockholm Monsters,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.