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 Croatia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Delhi.
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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 PIL 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 Interpol. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flash Fearless record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Symarip,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Prince Buster,
Soul Sonic Force,
Whodini,
Essential Logic,
T. Rex,
Pussy Galore,
Pierre Henry,
Jesper Dahlback,
Moby Grape,
Fear,
John Foxx,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
PIL,
The Last Poets,
Yusef Lateef,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Birthday Party,
Cluster,
Pet Shop Boys,
Faraquet,
Deadbeat,
Pharoah Sanders,
Hardrive,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Youth Brigade,
Metal Thangz,
the Normal,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fire Engines,
Kurtis Blow,
Cymande,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dark Day,
Sarah Menescal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Cale,
Gang Gang Dance,
MDC,
Wire,
Graham Central Station,
Dave Gahan,
David McCallum,
Suburban Knight,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lower 48,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rekid,
Jandek,
Jeff Lynne,
Gerry Rafferty,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Associates,
Nas,
Simply Red,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.