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 Jamaica and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Amazonics to the electroclash 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 Pharoah Sanders. All the underground hits.
All Eric B and Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Jesper Dahlback,
Marine Girls,
Tres Demented,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eden Ahbez,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lou Christie,
Cameo,
Tommy Roe,
Crime,
Ossler,
F. McDonald,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Lebanon Hanover,
Steve Hackett,
Pharoah Sanders,
Heaven 17,
Make Up,
Nils Olav,
JFA,
The Golliwogs,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Busters,
Erasure,
Cybotron,
Glenn Branca,
The Toasters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Roxette,
Parry Music,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Smoke,
the Sonics,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Brothers Johnson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
MDC,
Supertramp,
Darondo,
EPMD,
Minny Pops,
kango's stein massive,
Surgeon,
DJ Sneak,
The Residents,
UT,
The Gun Club,
Pierre Henry,
The Grass Roots,
Lakeside,
Skarface,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Visage,
Danielle Patucci,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bluetip,
Kaleidoscope,
Outsiders,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Severed Heads,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.