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 Malta and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 arpeggiator 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the crunk 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sparks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Archie Shepp,
Jeff Lynne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Young Marble Giants,
Neil Young,
Cluster,
Faraquet,
Radio Birdman,
The Neon Judgement,
Stiv Bators,
The Shadows of Knight,
Dorothy Ashby,
AZ,
Kas Product,
Tim Buckley,
Index,
The Fuzztones,
John Foxx,
Zero Boys,
Maleditus Sound,
Marc Almond,
Hot Snakes,
The Detroit Cobras,
Camberwell Now,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
KRS-One,
Alison Limerick,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Niagra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Monochrome Set,
Carl Craig,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wasted Youth,
JFA,
June of 44,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
ABBA,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Japan,
The Cowsills,
Yellowson,
Barrington Levy,
The Smiths,
Roy Ayers,
Motorama,
Symarip,
Soft Cell,
Rakim,
The United States of America,
Peter & Gordon,
Tears for Fears,
Grandmaster Flash,
Michelle Simonal,
Half Japanese,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rapeman,
Essential Logic,
Darondo,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.