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 Cyprus and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 spring reverb 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 kango's stein massive to the grime 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris & Cosey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dennis Brown,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Nation of Ulysses,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Reagan Youth,
Crispian St. Peters,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Con Funk Shun,
The Invisible,
Lou Reed,
The Gladiators,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Birthday Party,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Johnny Clarke,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Roy Ayers,
Susan Cadogan,
Derrick Morgan,
Charles Mingus,
the Human League,
Pylon,
Juan Atkins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jacques Brel,
Simply Red,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Max Romeo,
Quantec,
Sex Pistols,
Mission of Burma,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Deadbeat,
Radiohead,
Vainqueur,
Tom Boy,
Minutemen,
Tubeway Army,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
One Last Wish,
Bad Manners,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Au Pairs,
Interpol,
The Remains,
Gil Scott Heron,
Judy Mowatt,
Oneida,
Ponytail,
Todd Rundgren,
Crash Course in Science,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Barracudas,
Drexciya,
Zapp,
Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance, Gang Gang Dance.
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.