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 Samoa and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Qualms to the funk 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 The Tremeloes 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 Fania All-Stars,
Hardrive,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Underground Resistance,
Sparks,
Roxette,
Stetsasonic,
Matthew Halsall,
Steve Hackett,
Model 500,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Donny Hathaway,
Eric B and Rakim,
Franke,
Man Parrish,
Kaleidoscope,
Q65,
The Gap Band,
K-Klass,
Roy Ayers,
Lakeside,
Piero Umiliani,
Inner City,
Popol Vuh,
Dave Gahan,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cal Tjader,
Tears for Fears,
Curtis Mayfield,
Cheater Slicks,
Angry Samoans,
Cameo,
Half Japanese,
Malaria!,
Eric Copeland,
Thompson Twins,
PIL,
Nik Kershaw,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Association,
Das Ding,
Deakin,
Suicide,
Lindisfarne,
The Shadows of Knight,
In Retrospect,
Grauzone,
Black Pus,
Fifty Foot Hose,
the Soft Cell,
The Techniques,
Zapp,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marc Almond,
Roger Hodgson,
The Dead C,
Robert Görl,
LL Cool J,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.