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 Kazakhstan and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Duran Duran to the dance 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 The Neon Judgement. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Brick,
Soulsonic Force,
Hot Snakes,
Arthur Verocai,
Duran Duran,
Popol Vuh,
Black Moon,
Cameo,
Ituana,
Connie Case,
Scrapy,
E-Dancer,
The Dave Clark Five,
Susan Cadogan,
Quantec,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dual Sessions,
Scion,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jeru the Damaja,
Suburban Knight,
Basic Channel,
Royal Trux,
UT,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sun City Girls,
The Gladiators,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ultravox,
DJ Sneak,
X-Ray Spex,
Marc Almond,
Chris Corsano,
The Cramps,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
One Last Wish,
Severed Heads,
Maurizio,
Sound Behaviour,
CMW,
The United States of America,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ludus,
New Age Steppers,
Barbara Tucker,
Vladislav Delay,
The Blackbyrds,
Piero Umiliani,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Janne Schatter,
Pylon,
Fluxion,
Byron Stingily,
B.T. Express,
Skriet,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Seeds,
Arab on Radar,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Zero Boys,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.