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 Greece and from Seoul.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Arcadia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harry Pussy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lindisfarne,
Sonic Youth,
LL Cool J,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
La Düsseldorf,
Black Sheep,
Massinfluence,
David Axelrod,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Quando Quango,
Ronan,
Albert Ayler,
Traffic Nightmare,
Yazoo,
Clear Light,
Juan Atkins,
The Slackers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Todd Rundgren,
Soulsonic Force,
Lee Hazlewood,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
JFA,
Livin' Joy,
Animal Collective,
Colin Newman,
Rekid,
Funky Four + One,
The Cramps,
The Alarm Clocks,
Stetsasonic,
Lakeside,
Rufus Thomas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Neil Young,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Standells,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Eric B and Rakim,
Dave Gahan,
Piero Umiliani,
The Real Kids,
Magazine,
Ultravox,
Kas Product,
The Angels of Light,
Country Teasers,
The Wake,
Yaz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultimate Spinach,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Leonard Cohen,
Sound Behaviour,
Eurythmics,
Sandy B,
Slick Rick,
Flipper,
Tommy Roe,
Grauzone,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.