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 Sweden 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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Madrid.
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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the guitar 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
A Certain Ratio,
Average White Band,
Suburban Knight,
Ultra Naté,
China Crisis,
Amon Düül II,
U.S. Maple,
Make Up,
The Young Rascals,
Kaleidoscope,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Grey Daturas,
Lalann,
Accadde A,
The Golliwogs,
Jandek,
Erasure,
Jacques Brel,
Interpol,
Arcadia,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Mad Mike,
Jerry's Kids,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Yusef Lateef,
Ohio Players,
Half Japanese,
Crispian St. Peters,
Chris Corsano,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marcia Griffiths,
Basic Channel,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Red Krayola,
Sonic Youth,
Heaven 17,
Mantronix,
Joe Smooth,
Ponytail,
Mark Hollis,
Lungfish,
Stereo Dub,
The Smiths,
Iggy Pop,
The Victims,
Harmonia,
Jesper Dahlback,
Deepchord,
Agent Orange,
Wire,
Malaria!,
The Names,
Scientists,
The Black Dice,
The Count Five,
8 Eyed Spy,
Soul II Soul,
The Toasters,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Isaac Hayes,
Negative Approach,
Thompson Twins,
The Seeds,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.