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 Andorra and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum 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 Jandek to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Camouflage. All the underground hits.
All Terry Callier tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lindisfarne,
Ten City,
Wally Richardson,
Janne Schatter,
Warren Ellis,
Supertramp,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ossler,
Circle Jerks,
Josef K,
Nils Olav,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sugar Minott,
Half Japanese,
Harpers Bizarre,
David Bowie,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wings,
The Five Americans,
Donald Byrd,
Urselle,
Minny Pops,
Essential Logic,
Das Ding,
Sixth Finger,
Index,
Nik Kershaw,
Derrick May,
The Victims,
Eric Copeland,
Gabor Szabo,
John Holt,
Talk Talk,
Amon Düül,
New Age Steppers,
Zapp,
Freddie Wadling,
Ohio Players,
The Offenders,
the Sonics,
Jawbox,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tears for Fears,
X-Ray Spex,
Yazoo,
Robert Wyatt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric Dolphy,
The Zeros,
Kenny Larkin,
Liliput,
Jandek,
The Neon Judgement,
Echospace,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
EPMD,
Rapeman,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.