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 Philippines and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Move to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Stereo Dub 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron 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 marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
The Gap Band,
Black Sheep,
This Heat,
Average White Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gong,
Kurtis Blow,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sight & Sound,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dark Day,
Reagan Youth,
Ice-T,
The Mojo Men,
Soft Cell,
New Order,
Mo-Dettes,
The Motions,
Altered Images,
Suicide,
Can,
Section 25,
R.M.O.,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cluster,
Cymande,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fad Gadget,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Deepchord,
B.T. Express,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fatback Band,
Interpol,
Amon Düül II,
Chris Corsano,
David Bowie,
Siglo XX,
Icehouse,
Jacques Brel,
the Human League,
Warsaw,
David Axelrod,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Franke,
Donny Hathaway,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
48th St. Collective,
Quando Quango,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Joe Finger,
The Dave Clark Five,
Toni Rubio,
Desert Stars,
Underground Resistance,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Morten Harket,
Scientists,
Ohio Players,
AZ,
The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter, The Selecter.
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.