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 Kuwait and from Edmonton.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1984 at the first Arcadia 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 Mojo Men to the dance 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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacques Brel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Yellowson,
Junior Murvin,
Bauhaus,
Curtis Mayfield,
Skaos,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Supertramp,
Buzzcocks,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Stooges,
Anthony Braxton,
The Five Americans,
Lower 48,
Roger Hodgson,
Neil Young,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Grauzone,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Swell Maps,
Robert Görl,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Todd Rundgren,
Drive Like Jehu,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Smiths,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ultimate Spinach,
Echospace,
Charles Mingus,
Sällskapet,
Depeche Mode,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mark Hollis,
Morten Harket,
Wire,
Byron Stingily,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Neon Judgement,
Barbara Tucker,
OOIOO,
Johnny Osbourne,
Essential Logic,
The Gladiators,
Infiniti,
Agent Orange,
Terry Callier,
Lebanon Hanover,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The American Breed,
Iggy Pop,
Donald Byrd,
Anakelly,
Robert Wyatt,
Funkadelic,
Deepchord,
The Motions,
Eli Mardock,
Bad Manners,
Hardrive,
Marcia Griffiths,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.