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 El Salvador and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 oboe 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All Country Teasers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Hutcherson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Mad Mike,
Agent Orange,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The American Breed,
Oneida,
Soft Machine,
Sixth Finger,
Lalo Schifrin,
Aural Exciters,
Excepter,
The Toasters,
The Divine Comedy,
The Litter,
Fela Kuti,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Drexciya,
Sandy B,
Matthew Bourne,
China Crisis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kayak,
The Mummies,
Kurtis Blow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Moon,
Camouflage,
Newcleus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Delon & Dalcan,
Nation of Ulysses,
Absolute Body Control,
Tomorrow,
The Flesh Eaters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Yusef Lateef,
Black Sheep,
the Germs,
T. Rex,
Deakin,
Mr. Review,
DNA,
Erasure,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Alarm Clocks,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Television Personalities,
Ralphi Rosario,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Los Fastidios,
Lalann,
Scratch Acid,
The Busters,
Amon Düül,
The Slits,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gerry Rafferty,
Minor Threat,
John Foxx,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.