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 Colombia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Warren Ellis to the techno 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television Personalities 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
X-Ray Spex,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
OOIOO,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Severed Heads,
Grandmaster Flash,
CMW,
June of 44,
Drexciya,
Eli Mardock,
Silicon Teens,
Talk Talk,
Sun City Girls,
Masters at Work,
Brothers Johnson,
The Stooges,
Marc Almond,
Nico,
The Selecter,
Blossom Toes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Wire,
Bobby Byrd,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Cecil Taylor,
Black Sheep,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Robert Hood,
Symarip,
Harmonia,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Half Japanese,
Black Pus,
Pulsallama,
Khruangbin,
Eric Copeland,
Quantec,
Pantaleimon,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Skatalites,
Peter and Kerry,
Main Source,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Wake,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Robert Wyatt,
Neu!,
Connie Case,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Suburban Knight,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Soft Cell,
Underground Resistance,
The Knickerbockers,
Matthew Bourne,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Amon Düül II,
Accadde A,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.
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.