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 Costa Rica and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Livin' Joy to the disco 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 The Associates. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
Judy Mowatt,
Davy DMX,
Lee Hazlewood,
Peter & Gordon,
Television,
Excepter,
The Fall,
Make Up,
The Pop Group,
The Monks,
Toni Rubio,
Sixth Finger,
Idris Muhammad,
Symarip,
Heaven 17,
Swell Maps,
Simply Red,
Ultra Naté,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Animal Collective,
Sandy B,
Prince Buster,
Unrelated Segments,
Eric Dolphy,
China Crisis,
Whodini,
Fatback Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Brand Nubian,
The Golliwogs,
Technova,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Tears for Fears,
Eli Mardock,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Harmonia,
Ronnie Foster,
Skarface,
Lalo Schifrin,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Joyce Sims,
Soulsonic Force,
Funkadelic,
The Cramps,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Arcadia,
Curtis Mayfield,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Loose Ends,
Pagans,
Camouflage,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Depeche Mode,
Rod Modell,
Lindisfarne,
Sex Pistols,
Gabor Szabo,
Monolake,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.