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 New Zealand and from Shanghai.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 synthesizer 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 Camberwell Now to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Crispian St. Peters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gun Club 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
Flash Fearless,
Kerrie Biddell,
Youth Brigade,
Ten City,
Little Man,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Gladiators,
Sarah Menescal,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Swans,
Ludus,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Avey Tare,
Reagan Youth,
Fad Gadget,
Y Pants,
John Lydon,
Joe Finger,
Can,
Iggy Pop,
Carl Craig,
Harpers Bizarre,
Brothers Johnson,
The Real Kids,
Bush Tetras,
John Cale,
Nils Olav,
Erasure,
Bobby Sherman,
Livin' Joy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joyce Sims,
Yellowson,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sonic Youth,
The Star Department,
Magma,
The New Christs,
Bill Wells,
Chris & Cosey,
The Evens,
Suicide,
Skarface,
Vainqueur,
Radio Birdman,
The Cosmic Jokers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Moleskins,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Das Ding,
Henry Cow,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Mission of Burma,
Technova,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.