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 the UAE and from Toronto.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All The Cosmic Jokers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Stereo Dub,
The Star Department,
Pharoah Sanders,
Babytalk,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rakim,
Sixth Finger,
Ultimate Spinach,
Basic Channel,
Brass Construction,
The United States of America,
The Real Kids,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bill Wells,
X-102,
R.M.O.,
Connie Case,
Eric Dolphy,
Delta 5,
Idris Muhammad,
The Index,
The Skatalites,
New Order,
Zero Boys,
Tommy Roe,
the Germs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Crime,
Chris Corsano,
The Gladiators,
New Age Steppers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Stockholm Monsters,
Inner City,
The Slackers,
June of 44,
The Young Rascals,
Shuggie Otis,
Hasil Adkins,
Pantytec,
Magazine,
EPMD,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Hot Snakes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rufus Thomas,
Wasted Youth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
KRS-One,
Camouflage,
The Golliwogs,
Roger Hodgson,
Unwound,
Flipper,
Toni Rubio,
Marmalade,
Lalo Schifrin,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.