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 Germany and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Agitation Free to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.
All Marvin Gaye tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Slits,
Marcia Griffiths,
Altered Images,
Deakin,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Barbara Tucker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Byrd,
Funky Four + One,
X-102,
Agent Orange,
Surgeon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Negative Approach,
Neil Young,
JFA,
The Kinks,
Tom Boy,
The Searchers,
Bauhaus,
the Bar-Kays,
Skaos,
The Gap Band,
Kenny Larkin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Doors,
Procol Harum,
Godley & Creme,
Silicon Teens,
Scott Walker,
Sister Nancy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
John Coltrane,
Sixth Finger,
The Fuzztones,
Hasil Adkins,
Section 25,
Don Cherry,
Monolake,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
DJ Sneak,
Henry Cow,
Graham Central Station,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Black Dice,
Bronski Beat,
The Knickerbockers,
Simply Red,
PIL,
Soft Cell,
ABBA,
Crispian St. Peters,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Youth Brigade,
Swell Maps,
Can,
Ituana,
Lalo Schifrin,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.