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 United States and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 808 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 Man Parrish to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Half Japanese,
Bobby Womack,
CMW,
Maleditus Sound,
Pagans,
Quadrant,
Swell Maps,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Royal Trux,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Siglo XX,
Roxy Music,
The Raincoats,
Altered Images,
Quando Quango,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Dave Gahan,
Aloha Tigers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Television,
Shoche,
Todd Terry,
the Swans,
Sister Nancy,
Graham Central Station,
The J.B.'s,
the Soft Cell,
Magma,
Hot Snakes,
Ralphi Rosario,
Boogie Down Productions,
Surgeon,
Gang Starr,
Sugar Minott,
Rotary Connection,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Neil Young,
Steve Hackett,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neu!,
The Neon Judgement,
Wally Richardson,
Severed Heads,
Flamin' Groovies,
Country Teasers,
Joy Division,
Harry Pussy,
Index,
Sexual Harrassment,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
R.M.O.,
Black Moon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Robert Görl,
Goldenarms,
The Pop Group,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rapeman,
Hardrive,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.