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 Costa Rica and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 David Bowie 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 cv313 to the dance 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang Green,
Absolute Body Control,
Todd Rundgren,
The Sound,
The Real Kids,
Bootsy Collins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lee Hazlewood,
Basic Channel,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Gap Band,
Smog,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eden Ahbez,
The Angels of Light,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Moleskins,
Panda Bear,
Thee Headcoats,
10cc,
the Human League,
A Certain Ratio,
The Cure,
Mad Mike,
The Fall,
Idris Muhammad,
Make Up,
John Coltrane,
Marmalade,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bauhaus,
Amon Düül II,
Minor Threat,
Suicide,
Public Enemy,
Essential Logic,
Young Marble Giants,
Frankie Knuckles,
Das Ding,
Main Source,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ten City,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Silicon Teens,
Harpers Bizarre,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ultra Naté,
Michelle Simonal,
Ludus,
the Bar-Kays,
Schoolly D,
The Knickerbockers,
Minny Pops,
The Dave Clark Five,
In Retrospect,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Gladiators,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.