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 Switzerland 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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Peter and Kerry to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Jesper Dahlback. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Womack tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dark Day,
Nation of Ulysses,
Scan 7,
The Walker Brothers,
The Smiths,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Magma,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marcia Griffiths,
UT,
Lungfish,
Danielle Patucci,
Panda Bear,
The Vogues,
Fluxion,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
cv313,
FM Einheit,
Gong,
Pole,
The Wake,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Flesh Eaters,
Franke,
Mo-Dettes,
Essential Logic,
The Sonics,
The Toasters,
H. Thieme,
Shoche,
Au Pairs,
Underground Resistance,
Lindisfarne,
Yusef Lateef,
Bluetip,
Tropical Tobacco,
Wire,
Babytalk,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Kas Product,
John Coltrane,
Public Enemy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bobby Sherman,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Cure,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Anakelly,
Robert Görl,
the Slits,
Kerri Chandler,
Flash Fearless,
Ornette Coleman,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Joensuu 1685,
Blossom Toes,
The Real Kids,
Rod Modell,
F. McDonald,
Section 25,
Hot Snakes,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.