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 Niger 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Delon & Dalcan to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Saints. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every F. McDonald record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lakeside,
Skarface,
the Human League,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jawbox,
The Modern Lovers,
The Gun Club,
Moebius,
Ornette Coleman,
Throbbing Gristle,
Laurel Aitken,
Scrapy,
Magma,
The Standells,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scott Walker,
Fluxion,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Leonard Cohen,
Angry Samoans,
Kerri Chandler,
Arthur Verocai,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faraquet,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nik Kershaw,
The Fuzztones,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Niagra,
AZ,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Stereo Dub,
Kaleidoscope,
Warren Ellis,
Don Cherry,
Bobby Womack,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Reagan Youth,
Albert Ayler,
Kenny Larkin,
Girls At Our Best!,
Essential Logic,
CMW,
Ultimate Spinach,
Tres Demented,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gang Gang Dance,
UT,
The Dead C,
Grey Daturas,
Eric Dolphy,
Aswad,
Matthew Halsall,
Mary Jane Girls,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Blackbyrds,
Monolake,
The Seeds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.