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 Qatar and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 marimba 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 Josef K to the jazz 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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Gichy Dan,
Sonic Youth,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Fire Engines,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jeff Mills,
Fort Wilson Riot,
La Düsseldorf,
Aural Exciters,
Oneida,
Peter and Kerry,
Excepter,
Curtis Mayfield,
Loose Ends,
Arab on Radar,
Kas Product,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kerri Chandler,
Avey Tare,
Technova,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Basic Channel,
Judy Mowatt,
Swell Maps,
Groovy Waters,
Nico,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Radiopuhelimet,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Slits,
Tubeway Army,
X-101,
Robert Wyatt,
Boz Scaggs,
Tom Boy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Newcleus,
Ludus,
Carl Craig,
In Retrospect,
The Martian,
Wire,
Circle Jerks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Monks,
Barbara Tucker,
Slave,
Amazonics,
Cluster,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cybotron,
Kaleidoscope,
Rhythm & Sound,
FM Einheit,
Fatback Band,
The Kinks,
UT,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.