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 Luxembourg and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) 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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amazonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ 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?
Bad Manners,
Porter Ricks,
The Techniques,
Bush Tetras,
Flash Fearless,
Gang of Four,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Au Pairs,
Whodini,
Oblivians,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sparks,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
X-101,
Ohio Players,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Neil Young,
Stereo Dub,
Agitation Free,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fela Kuti,
In Retrospect,
The Golliwogs,
Kayak,
Mr. Review,
Smog,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yazoo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Donny Hathaway,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Moebius,
PIL,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Blues Magoos,
Theoretical Girls,
Yusef Lateef,
The Gun Club,
Barry Ungar,
Moss Icon,
Pantytec,
David Bowie,
Zero Boys,
Sound Behaviour,
Dark Day,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Symarip,
Popol Vuh,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Magma,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jimmy McGriff,
Absolute Body Control,
The Fugs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Main Source,
Pagans,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe, Ken Boothe.
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.