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 Senegal and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Crime to the grunge 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 Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gap Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Negative Approach,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Magma,
Laurel Aitken,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tropical Tobacco,
Tubeway Army,
The Monks,
Todd Terry,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nils Olav,
Avey Tare,
Con Funk Shun,
8 Eyed Spy,
Model 500,
Kaleidoscope,
Byron Stingily,
kango's stein massive,
Kurtis Blow,
Flamin' Groovies,
Thee Headcoats,
Malaria!,
David McCallum,
Urselle,
The Blues Magoos,
Stiv Bators,
Slave,
Goldenarms,
Lou Reed,
David Bowie,
R.M.O.,
the Swans,
Aswad,
Nirvana,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
New Order,
Au Pairs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Anthony Braxton,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marc Almond,
Janne Schatter,
The Tremeloes,
the Human League,
Bill Near,
Jacques Brel,
James White and The Blacks,
Suicide,
Television,
Matthew Bourne,
Reuben Wilson,
Ornette Coleman,
Surgeon,
Cybotron,
Public Image Ltd.,
Harmonia,
Index,
Junior Murvin,
Barbara Tucker,
Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller, Jacob Miller.
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.