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 Palau and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 X-101 to the techno 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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Joe & The Fish 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Index,
The Red Krayola,
Charles Mingus,
Icehouse,
Yazoo,
Ohio Players,
The Cowsills,
Accadde A,
Shuggie Otis,
Fluxion,
Wasted Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jeff Lynne,
Audionom,
The Litter,
Schoolly D,
Fugazi,
Dark Day,
Model 500,
Tim Buckley,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dual Sessions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Suburban Knight,
Deepchord,
kango's stein massive,
Laurel Aitken,
Surgeon,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Althea and Donna,
Groovy Waters,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
H. Thieme,
Aural Exciters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Japan,
the Association,
Malaria!,
Ten City,
Sonic Youth,
Country Teasers,
Ronnie Foster,
Jerry's Kids,
Siglo XX,
X-Ray Spex,
Jimmy McGriff,
Animal Collective,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Radiohead,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Donny Hathaway,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Slackers,
Bang On A Can,
Funkadelic,
Cecil Taylor,
The Beau Brummels,
The Gun Club,
Electric Prunes,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.