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 Mongolia and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the punk 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco 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?
Silicon Teens,
The Cramps,
Lakeside,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skriet,
Dark Day,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
MC5,
Sun Ra,
Blake Baxter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bluetip,
Marvin Gaye,
Nik Kershaw,
Steve Hackett,
Jesper Dahlback,
Delon & Dalcan,
Joy Division,
Eddi Front,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tres Demented,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Slackers,
Rufus Thomas,
This Heat,
Ludus,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultravox,
The Smiths,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tomorrow,
Zero Boys,
Flipper,
Massinfluence,
Kurtis Blow,
The Martian,
Angry Samoans,
Accadde A,
Au Pairs,
Nation of Ulysses,
Deakin,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Gladiators,
Throbbing Gristle,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gang Starr,
June Days,
Quando Quango,
Duran Duran,
Basic Channel,
Q and Not U,
X-102,
The Music Machine,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
the Human League,
Kerrie Biddell,
Isaac Hayes,
Minnie Riperton,
Kas Product,
Yaz,
Agitation Free,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.