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 Lithuania and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Hong Kong.
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 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 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the electroclash 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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Prunes,
Lightning Bolt,
Essential Logic,
Scientists,
Severed Heads,
Swell Maps,
Glambeats Corp.,
8 Eyed Spy,
Blake Baxter,
Idris Muhammad,
Laurel Aitken,
Liliput,
Roy Ayers,
John Cale,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cecil Taylor,
Los Fastidios,
Dual Sessions,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
John Holt,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Stiv Bators,
Amazonics,
Patti Smith,
PIL,
Sun City Girls,
Drexciya,
Pussy Galore,
L. Decosne,
Agent Orange,
48th St. Collective,
The Angels of Light,
Model 500,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Joe Smooth,
Marine Girls,
Ronnie Foster,
DJ Style,
The Barracudas,
Michelle Simonal,
June of 44,
Pere Ubu,
Eve St. Jones,
LL Cool J,
Loose Ends,
Wire,
Andrew Hill,
The Electric Prunes,
Pole,
Flipper,
The Divine Comedy,
Theoretical Girls,
Ossler,
Scott Walker,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Black Bananas,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jeru the Damaja,
Groovy Waters,
The J.B.'s,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.