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 Belize and from Madrid.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum 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 Rapeman to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Black Dice 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Offenders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
Lebanon Hanover,
Skarface,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siglo XX,
Godley & Creme,
The Buckinghams,
Monks,
Qualms,
Boz Scaggs,
The Skatalites,
Ituana,
John Coltrane,
Pantaleimon,
Jeff Mills,
Adolescents,
The Velvet Underground,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Selecter,
The Techniques,
Faraquet,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Delta 5,
Tubeway Army,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Pus,
Hardrive,
Interpol,
AZ,
Deadbeat,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rufus Thomas,
Ultra Naté,
Deepchord,
June Days,
Desert Stars,
Sonny Sharrock,
the Sonics,
PIL,
Zapp,
Flamin' Groovies,
Alton Ellis,
Man Eating Sloth,
Blake Baxter,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Pulsallama,
Judy Mowatt,
Moebius,
The Martian,
Malaria!,
Masters at Work,
Cybotron,
The Alarm Clocks,
Glambeats Corp.,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sugar Minott,
Gong,
The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke, The Smoke.
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.