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 Hungary and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 harpsichord 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Rites of Spring tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dead Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Television Personalities,
Camouflage,
Scan 7,
Gastr Del Sol,
Dave Gahan,
Audionom,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Avey Tare,
Kayak,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rites of Spring,
Swans,
Harpers Bizarre,
It's A Beautiful Day,
kango's stein massive,
Robert Görl,
The Raincoats,
Tomorrow,
Fatback Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Ken Boothe,
Dorothy Ashby,
Icehouse,
The Young Rascals,
EPMD,
Joy Division,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Move,
Warren Ellis,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Nico,
Aswad,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pulsallama,
Livin' Joy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
L. Decosne,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gichy Dan,
Loose Ends,
Nik Kershaw,
Grandmaster Flash,
Essential Logic,
The Velvet Underground,
Index,
Angry Samoans,
Shuggie Otis,
Newcleus,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Adolescents,
Scrapy,
Alton Ellis,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ronnie Foster,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.