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 Malta and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Japan,
Clear Light,
The Divine Comedy,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
K-Klass,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Brothers Johnson,
The Young Rascals,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joey Negro,
Maleditus Sound,
Eve St. Jones,
Neil Young,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Alison Limerick,
Henry Cow,
Todd Terry,
Drexciya,
Dead Boys,
Arcadia,
Au Pairs,
Flash Fearless,
Kenny Larkin,
Arab on Radar,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rites of Spring,
Eric Copeland,
Urselle,
One Last Wish,
Radiopuhelimet,
Prince Buster,
Mary Jane Girls,
Sexual Harrassment,
Country Teasers,
The Kinks,
Khruangbin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soft Machine,
Liliput,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Reagan Youth,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Glenn Branca,
The Happenings,
Robert Görl,
DNA,
Joyce Sims,
Rakim,
Swell Maps,
Basic Channel,
Matthew Bourne,
Rekid,
Roxy Music,
Archie Shepp,
Amon Düül II,
Nirvana,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Thee Headcoats,
Fear,
Tropical Tobacco,
James White and The Blacks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.