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 Fiji and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare 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 The Zeros to the punk 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
Quantec,
Cymande,
The Dirtbombs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fad Gadget,
Q65,
The Blackbyrds,
Dave Gahan,
Howard Jones,
Jimmy McGriff,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hot Snakes,
Technova,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ronnie Foster,
Chris & Cosey,
Godley & Creme,
Terry Callier,
The Saints,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Livin' Joy,
CMW,
Yazoo,
Bizarre Inc.,
Wire,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Mighty Diamonds,
John Foxx,
Faust,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lower 48,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Half Japanese,
The Blues Magoos,
Simply Red,
Marvin Gaye,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Modern Lovers,
The Mummies,
New York Dolls,
Public Enemy,
Pantytec,
The Monochrome Set,
Max Romeo,
Jesper Dahlback,
Desert Stars,
Barry Ungar,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
Robert Görl,
Wolf Eyes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Neil Young,
The Wake,
Matthew Bourne,
Magma, Magma, Magma, Magma.
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.