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 Bolivia and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jerry's Kids. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cecil Taylor,
The Busters,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Boz Scaggs,
Drive Like Jehu,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
the Normal,
Youth Brigade,
Kerrie Biddell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Throbbing Gristle,
Wally Richardson,
Flipper,
The Zeros,
Grey Daturas,
Scientists,
the Soft Cell,
Mars,
Icehouse,
Fluxion,
Black Sheep,
the Association,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Dorothy Ashby,
Popol Vuh,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Michelle Simonal,
Gong,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jacques Brel,
Fugazi,
Intrusion,
Howard Jones,
E-Dancer,
Joey Negro,
The Moody Blues,
The Angels of Light,
X-102,
Lakeside,
Man Parrish,
Bobby Sherman,
Jeff Mills,
Simply Red,
Bobby Womack,
UT,
Negative Approach,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Talk Talk,
Terry Callier,
Fad Gadget,
Johnny Clarke,
Echospace,
Mantronix,
The Real Kids,
Monks,
The Fugs,
Pantytec,
Black Moon,
Bauhaus,
Aaron Thompson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.