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 Australia and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ice-T,
Faust,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Bananas,
The Smoke,
Blancmange,
Technova,
The Invisible,
Country Joe & The Fish,
A Certain Ratio,
Newcleus,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Erasure,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Derrick Morgan,
Reuben Wilson,
Shoche,
One Last Wish,
Sandy B,
a-ha,
The Pretty Things,
Jacques Brel,
Grey Daturas,
Scion,
Rakim,
Godley & Creme,
K-Klass,
Crash Course in Science,
The Selecter,
Con Funk Shun,
Sister Nancy,
The Slackers,
Sparks,
Dave Gahan,
Von Mondo,
Charles Mingus,
Derrick May,
Model 500,
Bizarre Inc.,
Matthew Halsall,
The Victims,
Basic Channel,
The Vogues,
Dual Sessions,
Quadrant,
Echospace,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Leaves,
Mantronix,
Joey Negro,
Infiniti,
The Human League,
The Alarm Clocks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rekid,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.