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 Moldova and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 guitar 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 Delta 5 to the disco 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gabor Szabo 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bobby Byrd,
Rakim,
Deakin,
Gang of Four,
U.S. Maple,
Bobby Womack,
Cheater Slicks,
Zero Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
8 Eyed Spy,
This Heat,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Can,
Darondo,
Jeru the Damaja,
Archie Shepp,
Rufus Thomas,
Bronski Beat,
The Golliwogs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lower 48,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Steve Hackett,
The United States of America,
B.T. Express,
Faraquet,
The Remains,
The Zeros,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Young Marble Giants,
Tommy Roe,
Brick,
Audionom,
Shoche,
the Slits,
Carl Craig,
John Lydon,
The American Breed,
Dave Gahan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Funky Four + One,
The Index,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Dead Boys,
The Skatalites,
the Bar-Kays,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Electric Prunes,
Dual Sessions,
Bobby Sherman,
Erasure,
Bootsy Collins,
Isaac Hayes,
Davy DMX,
Derrick May,
The Cramps,
Sister Nancy,
Nirvana,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.