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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Philadelphia.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 E-Dancer to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Idris Muhammad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stetsasonic,
Bill Near,
The Birthday Party,
The Slits,
PIL,
Soft Machine,
Organ,
Delon & Dalcan,
Warren Ellis,
Lightning Bolt,
Sound Behaviour,
Charles Mingus,
Ponytail,
Rotary Connection,
The Offenders,
OOIOO,
Porter Ricks,
Mission of Burma,
Aloha Tigers,
Electric Prunes,
Ultra Naté,
Heaven 17,
Urselle,
Avey Tare,
Wire,
Mo-Dettes,
H. Thieme,
Todd Rundgren,
Silicon Teens,
Henry Cow,
Niagra,
Trumans Water,
Von Mondo,
Cybotron,
The Sound,
Eddi Front,
Moebius,
The Victims,
One Last Wish,
L. Decosne,
Surgeon,
Can,
X-Ray Spex,
Matthew Bourne,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Neil Young,
Todd Terry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mad Mike,
R.M.O.,
U.S. Maple,
Lebanon Hanover,
Crooked Eye,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Scrapy,
Tears for Fears,
Jesper Dahlback,
Khruangbin,
Donald Byrd,
Flamin' Groovies,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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.