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 Lithuania and from Seoul.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Stooges,
Stockholm Monsters,
Slave,
Rakim,
Delta 5,
Patti Smith,
Cluster,
Girls At Our Best!,
Tears for Fears,
Neil Young,
Alice Coltrane,
Television Personalities,
Electric Prunes,
Toni Rubio,
David Axelrod,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Arab on Radar,
Yusef Lateef,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bronski Beat,
The Young Rascals,
Eric Dolphy,
Gabor Szabo,
Grey Daturas,
The Electric Prunes,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
LL Cool J,
T. Rex,
Oneida,
Michelle Simonal,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mandrill,
Marmalade,
The Dave Clark Five,
Darondo,
Prince Buster,
David Bowie,
Quantec,
Bush Tetras,
Visage,
Ultra Naté,
The Misunderstood,
Skriet,
Jawbox,
This Heat,
the Germs,
Alphaville,
Infiniti,
Quando Quango,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bizarre Inc.,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Scrapy,
Dual Sessions,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Skatalites,
Letta Mbulu,
Fela Kuti,
X-102, X-102, X-102, X-102.
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.