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 Serbia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Soft Machine to the funk 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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cosmic Jokers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Easy Going,
Howard Jones,
The Leaves,
Joyce Sims,
Erykah Badu,
Ossler,
Kaleidoscope,
The Move,
Bob Dylan,
Aural Exciters,
the Slits,
Minor Threat,
Fad Gadget,
The Monks,
Bad Manners,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Wire,
Man Eating Sloth,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Litter,
Parry Music,
Vladislav Delay,
Japan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Doors,
Tom Boy,
Newcleus,
Amon Düül,
Gang Green,
Soulsonic Force,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Television,
The Dave Clark Five,
China Crisis,
Davy DMX,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Gap Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Warren Ellis,
Intrusion,
Unwound,
Gong,
The Fuzztones,
Rhythm & Sound,
Cameo,
The Mummies,
Slave,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eurythmics,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Moody Blues,
Lakeside,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sällskapet,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bootsy Collins,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.