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 France and from London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Gastr Del Sol to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
Yaz,
The Cowsills,
Bill Wells,
Sixth Finger,
Shoche,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
John Lydon,
Masters at Work,
the Bar-Kays,
Bobby Sherman,
The Velvet Underground,
Reagan Youth,
Swell Maps,
The Real Kids,
Organ,
Scientists,
Accadde A,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Electric Prunes,
Interpol,
X-101,
Eric Dolphy,
kango's stein massive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Dark Day,
Bob Dylan,
Ultravox,
Crime,
Delta 5,
Lalann,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Carl Craig,
Anthony Braxton,
Colin Newman,
10cc,
The Last Poets,
Simply Red,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jeff Mills,
Rotary Connection,
Urselle,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Seeds,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Main Source,
Monolake,
Dual Sessions,
Marmalade,
Magazine,
Rakim,
Buzzcocks,
Peter & Gordon,
The Moody Blues,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
MC5,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Rufus Thomas,
The Happenings,
The Kinks,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.