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 Seychelles and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Holger Czukay 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the grunge 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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Howard Jones,
Flipper,
Flamin' Groovies,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Japan,
Whodini,
Animal Collective,
The Gap Band,
China Crisis,
KRS-One,
The Angels of Light,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Martian,
Rekid,
Rotary Connection,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roxy Music,
Bill Near,
Radiopuhelimet,
cv313,
The Smiths,
Funkadelic,
The Human League,
U.S. Maple,
Davy DMX,
The Birthday Party,
Interpol,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rosa Yemen,
Charles Mingus,
Dead Boys,
The Gun Club,
Matthew Bourne,
PIL,
Alton Ellis,
Rhythm & Sound,
Dark Day,
The Wake,
Kurtis Blow,
Dennis Brown,
Morten Harket,
Inner City,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Barracudas,
Yazoo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Aswad,
Average White Band,
Joey Negro,
Popol Vuh,
The Golliwogs,
Pussy Galore,
Grauzone,
Shuggie Otis,
The Leaves,
Gang Green,
Crooked Eye,
Ten City,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.