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 Morocco and from Columbus.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tokyo.
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 snare 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 Procol Harum to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe 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 arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bluetip,
Qualms,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pagans,
Derrick May,
R.M.O.,
48th St. Collective,
The Happenings,
Lee Hazlewood,
Tommy Roe,
Metal Thangz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Khruangbin,
Piero Umiliani,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bush Tetras,
Quadrant,
Rapeman,
Fluxion,
T. Rex,
The Smoke,
Amon Düül II,
CMW,
Hasil Adkins,
Ken Boothe,
Zero Boys,
Matthew Halsall,
Leonard Cohen,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rites of Spring,
Sexual Harrassment,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pantytec,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Real Kids,
Niagra,
Magazine,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Albert Ayler,
The Fugs,
The Fall,
Delta 5,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cymande,
Toni Rubio,
Adolescents,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Drexciya,
Masters at Work,
Whodini,
Malaria!,
Deadbeat,
Harmonia,
U.S. Maple,
Kenny Larkin,
The Saints,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Cowsills,
Tears for Fears,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eric Copeland,
John Holt,
Porter Ricks,
Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond, Marc Almond.
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.