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 Tajikistan and from Beijing.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Skatalites,
Yaz,
Josef K,
Malaria!,
Peter & Gordon,
the Swans,
Ten City,
Electric Prunes,
Roy Ayers,
Lower 48,
Accadde A,
Procol Harum,
Gregory Isaacs,
Niagra,
Dorothy Ashby,
Deakin,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Agitation Free,
Nils Olav,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Easy Going,
Shuggie Otis,
The Velvet Underground,
Pole,
Suicide,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bauhaus,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Star Department,
Amon Düül,
Radiohead,
Sandy B,
Hot Snakes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Tears for Fears,
The Raincoats,
Blossom Toes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
PIL,
The Dirtbombs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Al Stewart,
Wire,
Sällskapet,
Davy DMX,
Ronnie Foster,
Kayak,
Swell Maps,
Oblivians,
Loose Ends,
Urselle,
The Litter,
China Crisis,
Erasure,
Brass Construction,
Lebanon Hanover,
World's Most,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.