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 Belgium and from New York.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 marimba 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 Pulsallama to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
The Moleskins,
Delon & Dalcan,
Todd Rundgren,
DJ Sneak,
Technova,
The Fall,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Suburban Knight,
Alton Ellis,
Mars,
Eve St. Jones,
Ten City,
10cc,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lungfish,
cv313,
Nas,
Organ,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Susan Cadogan,
Guru Guru,
Los Fastidios,
Easy Going,
The Fire Engines,
Henry Cow,
The Black Dice,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eurythmics,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Toasters,
Eddi Front,
World's Most,
The Gories,
Lyres,
Agitation Free,
Jacques Brel,
New York Dolls,
Blake Baxter,
Goldenarms,
Tom Boy,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kevin Saunderson,
Warren Ellis,
Vladislav Delay,
Nik Kershaw,
Ronnie Foster,
Hardrive,
The Electric Prunes,
DNA,
Lalann,
Quando Quango,
Soft Machine,
LL Cool J,
Pylon,
Crash Course in Science,
The Move,
Shoche,
The Zeros,
Marcia Griffiths,
Model 500,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.