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 Liechtenstein and from Spokane.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Country Teasers to the jazz 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Kayak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
Sun Ra,
Stiv Bators,
Marshall Jefferson,
Depeche Mode,
The Mojo Men,
T.S.O.L.,
Connie Case,
Sam Rivers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fear,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Association,
Fad Gadget,
Liliput,
Livin' Joy,
Cymande,
Radio Birdman,
Can,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lungfish,
LL Cool J,
X-102,
Sparks,
June of 44,
Angry Samoans,
The Modern Lovers,
DJ Sneak,
Jandek,
Circle Jerks,
The Vogues,
Guru Guru,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soft Machine,
Marine Girls,
Dual Sessions,
Shuggie Otis,
The Gap Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The J.B.'s,
Cluster,
Althea and Donna,
Yusef Lateef,
The Gories,
Alphaville,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fugs,
Suicide,
Amazonics,
Radiohead,
The New Christs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Smog,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Dark Day,
Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone.
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.