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 Madagascar and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 harpsichord 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 Dorothy Ashby to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Teenage Jesus and the Jerks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Electric Light Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
Los Fastidios,
Boogie Down Productions,
Flipper,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Negative Approach,
The Techniques,
Godley & Creme,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Beau Brummels,
Ultra Naté,
Inner City,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Isaac Hayes,
Vainqueur,
Albert Ayler,
Harry Pussy,
Kurtis Blow,
Michelle Simonal,
Robert Wyatt,
Scan 7,
Magma,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
This Heat,
Nik Kershaw,
Quantec,
The Grass Roots,
Ultimate Spinach,
Anthony Braxton,
Funky Four + One,
Big Daddy Kane,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Janne Schatter,
AZ,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Mandrill,
Radiopuhelimet,
Index,
The Smoke,
Sixth Finger,
Spandau Ballet,
Rosa Yemen,
Harmonia,
kango's stein massive,
Ultravox,
Man Parrish,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Mummies,
UT,
Ten City,
Peter and Kerry,
The Happenings,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Leonard Cohen,
Silicon Teens,
Sex Pistols,
Excepter,
Ponytail,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.