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 East Timor and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 chamberlin 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 Matthew Halsall to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Frankie Knuckles. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
UT,
New York Dolls,
Alison Limerick,
The Toasters,
Steve Hackett,
Groovy Waters,
Crime,
Eric B and Rakim,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Aaron Thompson,
Black Moon,
Quantec,
Mo-Dettes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Royal Trux,
Sun City Girls,
Oneida,
Robert Görl,
Young Marble Giants,
Bill Near,
Yusef Lateef,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hoover,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sight & Sound,
Kas Product,
Letta Mbulu,
Lalann,
Ken Boothe,
Mary Jane Girls,
Liliput,
Ultravox,
Janne Schatter,
Roxy Music,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kerrie Biddell,
Nils Olav,
Alphaville,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Hot Snakes,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
MDC,
The Golliwogs,
The Doors,
Reuben Wilson,
Stiv Bators,
DNA,
Bob Dylan,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Slick Rick,
Theoretical Girls,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Neil Young,
Cybotron,
The Motions,
Arab on Radar,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Barbara Tucker,
Model 500,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.