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 Chad and from Columbus.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin 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 Electric Prunes to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aural Exciters 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Bobby Sherman,
the Fania All-Stars,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Freddie Wadling,
Kenny Larkin,
Parry Music,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Andrew Hill,
Crispian St. Peters,
Scott Walker,
The Doors,
Funky Four + One,
Lindisfarne,
the Human League,
Harmonia,
Motorama,
Saccharine Trust,
Cluster,
The Vogues,
Rosa Yemen,
The Barracudas,
Altered Images,
Basic Channel,
Sun Ra,
Iggy Pop,
Barry Ungar,
Arcadia,
Shoche,
Section 25,
Theoretical Girls,
The Modern Lovers,
Suicide,
Delon & Dalcan,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
China Crisis,
John Coltrane,
Neil Young,
Prince Buster,
Grandmaster Flash,
Angry Samoans,
Moss Icon,
Judy Mowatt,
The United States of America,
The Dead C,
Yusef Lateef,
David Bowie,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Trojans,
Lou Reed,
Can,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Quadrant,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Aaron Thompson,
Ossler,
Soft Cell,
World's Most,
The Misunderstood,
James White and The Blacks,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.