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 the UAE and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Brothers Johnson to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Organ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Junior Murvin,
Flash Fearless,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Move,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Skaos,
Procol Harum,
Q and Not U,
Barry Ungar,
Nick Fraelich,
Josef K,
Robert Görl,
Lou Christie,
Reagan Youth,
The Golliwogs,
Bootsy Collins,
Delta 5,
Jacques Brel,
Blake Baxter,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Blues Magoos,
Leonard Cohen,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Tears for Fears,
kango's stein massive,
Deadbeat,
Rites of Spring,
Hardrive,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Intrusion,
Cymande,
Max Romeo,
The Happenings,
Alison Limerick,
Neil Young,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hashim,
Underground Resistance,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sugar Minott,
Piero Umiliani,
Sister Nancy,
MC5,
Fugazi,
Royal Trux,
Motorama,
Brass Construction,
Cluster,
ABBA,
Japan,
Rakim,
The Misunderstood,
Johnny Osbourne,
Warren Ellis,
Wire,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Morten Harket,
Harmonia,
Prince Buster,
The Skatalites,
Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker, Barbara Tucker.
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.