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 Romania and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Joe Smooth to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Lynne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Masters at Work,
Girls At Our Best!,
Quadrant,
The Moody Blues,
Bill Near,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Music Machine,
Joyce Sims,
The New Christs,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Barracudas,
The Knickerbockers,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Associates,
Pere Ubu,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Warren Ellis,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Terry Callier,
The Flesh Eaters,
Barbara Tucker,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Doors,
John Cale,
The Blackbyrds,
The Saints,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Remains,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lungfish,
Malaria!,
Crispy Ambulance,
These Immortal Souls,
Kerri Chandler,
The Fortunes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Victims,
Funkadelic,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bad Manners,
The Durutti Column,
New York Dolls,
John Foxx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tommy Roe,
Absolute Body Control,
Quando Quango,
EPMD,
Wings,
Deakin,
The J.B.'s,
Matthew Bourne,
Roxy Music,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Barrington Levy,
The Slits,
Infiniti,
Second Layer,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.