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 Brunei and from Madrid.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vaughan Mason & Crew record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sister Nancy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
Saccharine Trust,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Schoolly D,
Bobby Womack,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Johnny Osbourne,
The J.B.'s,
Roxette,
CMW,
Sonic Youth,
The Star Department,
Delta 5,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jacques Brel,
Siglo XX,
Stockholm Monsters,
Soft Machine,
The Move,
Fear,
Eve St. Jones,
Cymande,
Livin' Joy,
Spandau Ballet,
Hoover,
Matthew Halsall,
Roxy Music,
ABC,
Ponytail,
UT,
kango's stein massive,
Television,
Supertramp,
Mission of Burma,
Country Joe & The Fish,
June Days,
Outsiders,
Lightning Bolt,
The Divine Comedy,
Nils Olav,
Tomorrow,
Dual Sessions,
Barrington Levy,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Walker Brothers,
Big Daddy Kane,
In Retrospect,
Adolescents,
Jawbox,
F. McDonald,
Reuben Wilson,
Anakelly,
Joe Finger,
Lindisfarne,
Nirvana,
Duran Duran,
Ultravox,
World's Most,
Buzzcocks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.