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 Kyrgyzstan and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Spokane.
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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bizarre Inc. to the rap 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
EPMD,
Gregory Isaacs,
Fat Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeff Mills,
L. Decosne,
Blossom Toes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Idris Muhammad,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Colin Newman,
Echospace,
Sexual Harrassment,
Television,
Black Moon,
Zero Boys,
the Bar-Kays,
Mars,
The Raincoats,
Bizarre Inc.,
Hardrive,
Quadrant,
Stockholm Monsters,
Pylon,
Urselle,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Royal Trux,
Magazine,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Joey Negro,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Slackers,
Khruangbin,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Half Japanese,
Marmalade,
The Leaves,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Darondo,
The Wake,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Birthday Party,
Guru Guru,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Q65,
Sällskapet,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gang Gang Dance,
Aloha Tigers,
Chrome,
Dual Sessions,
Sparks,
Bobby Byrd,
Suicide,
Public Image Ltd.,
Patti Smith,
Bill Near,
Ronnie Foster,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.