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 Papua New Guinea and from Salvador.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Slick Rick to the crunk 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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May 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 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gil Scott Heron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
World's Most,
Erasure,
Nation of Ulysses,
U.S. Maple,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Heaven 17,
Blancmange,
Boz Scaggs,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Theoretical Girls,
David Bowie,
Neil Young,
Minutemen,
Buzzcocks,
Country Teasers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marmalade,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Dead Boys,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Music Machine,
Nas,
Roxette,
Bad Manners,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Piero Umiliani,
Popol Vuh,
This Heat,
The Fugs,
Amon Düül,
The Standells,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bootsy Collins,
Jimmy McGriff,
Slave,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sam Rivers,
Joe Smooth,
Tommy Roe,
MC5,
Los Fastidios,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Shuggie Otis,
New York Dolls,
Duran Duran,
The Victims,
Cheater Slicks,
The Misunderstood,
Television Personalities,
The Velvet Underground,
Vainqueur,
Marvin Gaye,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bill Near,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Robert Görl,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.