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 Finland and from Houston.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Michael McDonald 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 disco 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 Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Lindisfarne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camberwell Now record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Funky Four + One,
Adolescents,
Reagan Youth,
The Residents,
Eric Dolphy,
Masters at Work,
Make Up,
Derrick Morgan,
Crispian St. Peters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Piero Umiliani,
Flash Fearless,
Letta Mbulu,
Eden Ahbez,
Model 500,
The Dave Clark Five,
Excepter,
Rosa Yemen,
Bauhaus,
L. Decosne,
Circle Jerks,
New Age Steppers,
Eddi Front,
Marc Almond,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barry Ungar,
Susan Cadogan,
Yazoo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Brand Nubian,
Slave,
Outsiders,
Gichy Dan,
Pierre Henry,
Quadrant,
The Gap Band,
Underground Resistance,
Sandy B,
Magma,
Stereo Dub,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Michelle Simonal,
Urselle,
The Doobie Brothers,
Skarface,
Marcia Griffiths,
Brick,
The Move,
Dark Day,
Ituana,
The Tremeloes,
Neil Young,
The Moleskins,
Hot Snakes,
Q and Not U,
Alphaville,
Amon Düül,
the Human League,
Joey Negro,
Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance.
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.