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 Andorra and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Alice Coltrane to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Lalo Schifrin,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Thee Headcoats,
Cybotron,
Skarface,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Invisible,
Black Flag,
Aswad,
The Walker Brothers,
Liliput,
the Soft Cell,
The Sound,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Five Americans,
Kerri Chandler,
the Fania All-Stars,
David Axelrod,
Zero Boys,
Scott Walker,
Jawbox,
Accadde A,
Agent Orange,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kas Product,
The Star Department,
The Toasters,
Ludus,
Section 25,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Heaven 17,
Nik Kershaw,
Joy Division,
The Fugs,
The Happenings,
Intrusion,
Simply Red,
The Doors,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tom Boy,
The Stooges,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sonny Sharrock,
Avey Tare,
Josef K,
Roxette,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flipper,
Dawn Penn,
The Smiths,
Junior Murvin,
Eric Copeland,
Icehouse,
The Standells,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rakim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yaz,
The Mojo Men,
Mark Hollis,
Easy Going,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.