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 Georgia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 harpsichord 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 Cramps to the rap 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All Mantronix tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alton Ellis 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 a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Henry Cow,
Q and Not U,
Young Marble Giants,
Hasil Adkins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pagans,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lucky Dragons,
Pole,
The United States of America,
The Black Dice,
Beasts of Bourbon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Section 25,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Yazoo,
Excepter,
John Coltrane,
Make Up,
Ludus,
Pylon,
Jesper Dahlback,
Slick Rick,
Blossom Toes,
Terry Callier,
Moss Icon,
the Association,
Procol Harum,
Kas Product,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Gun Club,
The Blues Magoos,
X-102,
David McCallum,
the Soft Cell,
Niagra,
Sex Pistols,
Minnie Riperton,
The Sound,
Flamin' Groovies,
Joensuu 1685,
Barry Ungar,
Lou Christie,
Camouflage,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rekid,
The Doobie Brothers,
L. Decosne,
Second Layer,
Negative Approach,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Dennis Brown,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Slits,
Grauzone,
Bauhaus,
The Techniques,
Oneida,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.