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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron 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 Livin' Joy to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 the Human League. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Judy Mowatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bang On A Can,
Bauhaus,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sound Behaviour,
Chris & Cosey,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Music Machine,
Half Japanese,
Pere Ubu,
Amon Düül,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Zeros,
JFA,
Sun Ra,
The Walker Brothers,
The Monochrome Set,
Scion,
Organ,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ken Boothe,
Joe Finger,
Visage,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gerry Rafferty,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ponytail,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aural Exciters,
Alison Limerick,
Cal Tjader,
Peter and Kerry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blackbyrds,
Josef K,
Chris Corsano,
Kerrie Biddell,
Juan Atkins,
Aaron Thompson,
Tubeway Army,
Adolescents,
Accadde A,
Ronnie Foster,
Fear,
kango's stein massive,
Scan 7,
Tomorrow,
Jeff Mills,
Brand Nubian,
Moss Icon,
Pagans,
Rosa Yemen,
Deadbeat,
The Remains,
The American Breed,
Pierre Henry,
Hot Snakes,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.