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 Kosovo and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mexico City.
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 guitar 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the techno 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Scott Walker,
L. Decosne,
Slick Rick,
Marshall Jefferson,
DJ Style,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Prince Buster,
Bobby Womack,
A Certain Ratio,
Monolake,
Alison Limerick,
Darondo,
Chris & Cosey,
Amon Düül II,
Cluster,
Skaos,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gories,
X-102,
Robert Hood,
Unrelated Segments,
China Crisis,
Blake Baxter,
The Birthday Party,
The Victims,
Sun City Girls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Lydon,
The Divine Comedy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Fall,
Trumans Water,
The Standells,
PIL,
Cameo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Hoover,
Mr. Review,
Pussy Galore,
Kas Product,
Piero Umiliani,
Icehouse,
The Real Kids,
Derrick Morgan,
Blancmange,
Radio Birdman,
Deepchord,
The Cure,
Isaac Hayes,
Unwound,
The Gap Band,
Soulsonic Force,
Lalo Schifrin,
Graham Central Station,
Newcleus,
Simply Red,
Sandy B,
Depeche Mode,
Goldenarms,
a-ha, a-ha, a-ha, a-ha.
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.