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 France and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Edmonton and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lightning Bolt to the rock 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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cameo,
Mr. Review,
Ohio Players,
The Knickerbockers,
Alphaville,
The Busters,
Television Personalities,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Soft Cell,
Bill Wells,
Sandy B,
Pylon,
Franke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter & Gordon,
Agitation Free,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bad Manners,
Urselle,
Von Mondo,
Ornette Coleman,
Dark Day,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Al Stewart,
The Associates,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Fortunes,
The Slits,
Depeche Mode,
Dawn Penn,
Robert Hood,
OOIOO,
The Zeros,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Schoolly D,
Skriet,
Tommy Roe,
Spoonie Gee,
Second Layer,
Leonard Cohen,
The Fugs,
Aaron Thompson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ultravox,
Tubeway Army,
Howard Jones,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Human League,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Circle Jerks,
The Beau Brummels,
Inner City,
Heaven 17,
Grauzone,
Pole,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Swans,
Brothers Johnson,
Colin Newman,
Lightning Bolt,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish, Country Joe & The Fish.
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.