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 Greece and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ludus to the electroclash 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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Happenings,
June of 44,
The Residents,
Marmalade,
Roxy Music,
Laurel Aitken,
The Star Department,
Drexciya,
Y Pants,
Duran Duran,
The Selecter,
Joe Finger,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Little Man,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Harry Pussy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
10cc,
Bobby Sherman,
Neil Young,
Stetsasonic,
The Grass Roots,
Masters at Work,
Symarip,
Suicide,
Lucky Dragons,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jeff Mills,
Roger Hodgson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
ABC,
Can,
DNA,
Crime,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Grandmaster Flash,
Todd Terry,
The Gun Club,
The Sound,
Visage,
The Blues Magoos,
Nas,
The Index,
Tommy Roe,
Tears for Fears,
Youth Brigade,
The Birthday Party,
The Barracudas,
Au Pairs,
Echospace,
Sugar Minott,
Rufus Thomas,
Janne Schatter,
Mo-Dettes,
Jacob Miller,
Hoover,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.