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 Togo and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the grime 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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pulsallama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Count Five,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lungfish,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Magazine,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Infiniti,
Matthew Halsall,
Jeff Lynne,
The Mojo Men,
Don Cherry,
D'Angelo,
Banda Bassotti,
Colin Newman,
Scott Walker,
Traffic Nightmare,
Icehouse,
Urselle,
The Gap Band,
Rites of Spring,
Slick Rick,
Alison Limerick,
Nico,
The Sound,
Au Pairs,
Alphaville,
Visage,
The Offenders,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Beau Brummels,
Lebanon Hanover,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Public Image Ltd.,
Rapeman,
Hot Snakes,
The Flesh Eaters,
Arcadia,
Wire,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eve St. Jones,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Moody Blues,
Dual Sessions,
The Fugs,
Intrusion,
Byron Stingily,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pulsallama,
Pagans,
Johnny Clarke,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Radio Birdman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.