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 Grenada and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 chamberlin 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 Pere Ubu 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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Newcleus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Freddie Wadling,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Tommy Roe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Dawn Penn,
Moebius,
Joensuu 1685,
Blake Baxter,
Sam Rivers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pantaleimon,
This Heat,
Peter & Gordon,
The Birthday Party,
The Music Machine,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Happenings,
The Moleskins,
Warren Ellis,
Flamin' Groovies,
Funkadelic,
JFA,
The Cramps,
Patti Smith,
Duran Duran,
Soul II Soul,
Subhumans,
Don Cherry,
Easy Going,
10cc,
Stockholm Monsters,
D'Angelo,
Gang Starr,
The Five Americans,
Bobby Byrd,
The Invisible,
Television Personalities,
Traffic Nightmare,
Black Moon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ponytail,
Trumans Water,
Kool Moe Dee,
Hardrive,
Dual Sessions,
Man Parrish,
Ken Boothe,
Kenny Larkin,
Roy Ayers,
Basic Channel,
Los Fastidios,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Motions,
Television,
Outsiders,
Davy DMX,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jacob Miller,
48th St. Collective,
Nirvana,
Quantec,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.