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 Barbados and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sound to the rock 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Music Machine,
a-ha,
Marc Almond,
Kerri Chandler,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Audionom,
Sam Rivers,
Quando Quango,
Shoche,
the Fania All-Stars,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Curtis Mayfield,
Boogie Down Productions,
Matthew Bourne,
The Slackers,
the Soft Cell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Modern Lovers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Essential Logic,
Basic Channel,
Tom Boy,
Stetsasonic,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gong,
Moss Icon,
Warren Ellis,
Swell Maps,
Sandy B,
K-Klass,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Pop Group,
Symarip,
Isaac Hayes,
Pylon,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dual Sessions,
The Monochrome Set,
KRS-One,
Ituana,
Eden Ahbez,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Mummies,
Nirvana,
Josef K,
Max Romeo,
Aaron Thompson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ice-T,
Yellowson,
Silicon Teens,
Porter Ricks,
Joe Finger,
Kevin Saunderson,
Piero Umiliani,
B.T. Express,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Monks,
The Five Americans,
Flash Fearless,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.