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 Benin and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1978 at the first Visage 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jimmy McGriff record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nation of Ulysses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Isaac Hayes,
Sister Nancy,
Maleditus Sound,
Colin Newman,
The Electric Prunes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rapeman,
Dorothy Ashby,
Drive Like Jehu,
Underground Resistance,
kango's stein massive,
Throbbing Gristle,
Peter & Gordon,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Urselle,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Scan 7,
Pierre Henry,
Minutemen,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Warren Ellis,
Dark Day,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Slackers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
June of 44,
Soulsonic Force,
Echospace,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scott Walker,
The Dead C,
The Golliwogs,
Bill Wells,
Kerri Chandler,
Delta 5,
Ponytail,
Todd Rundgren,
Schoolly D,
Crash Course in Science,
Wolf Eyes,
Jacob Miller,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
LL Cool J,
Ohio Players,
Ronan,
David Bowie,
Donny Hathaway,
Bizarre Inc.,
Carl Craig,
D'Angelo,
Sparks,
Electric Prunes,
Gang Green,
Iggy Pop,
Franke,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Black Flag,
Ronnie Foster,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.