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 Afghanistan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Flamin' Groovies to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Hoover,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Boredoms,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roger Hodgson,
Pantaleimon,
Suburban Knight,
The Victims,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Masters at Work,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Saints,
Henry Cow,
Faust,
Underground Resistance,
MC5,
Ronnie Foster,
Aloha Tigers,
LL Cool J,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Young Rascals,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tears for Fears,
Joey Negro,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Barracudas,
Pagans,
The Real Kids,
Kool Moe Dee,
Main Source,
Eric Dolphy,
Godley & Creme,
The Star Department,
Brass Construction,
Stetsasonic,
Average White Band,
Patti Smith,
Unrelated Segments,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Youth Brigade,
Dave Gahan,
Index,
Eli Mardock,
Quadrant,
Intrusion,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fad Gadget,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Surgeon,
Todd Terry,
Qualms,
Kerri Chandler,
Y Pants,
Babytalk,
the Swans,
The Vogues,
The Evens,
Marc Almond,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.