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 Vietnam and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 arpeggiator 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 Zapp to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Barrington Levy,
Gang Starr,
Laurel Aitken,
EPMD,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
JFA,
Sixth Finger,
World's Most,
the Swans,
The Mojo Men,
Bad Manners,
Crime,
Bizarre Inc.,
Brick,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lower 48,
Monks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Amon Düül,
Girls At Our Best!,
The New Christs,
The Cowsills,
The Tremeloes,
The Dirtbombs,
Ituana,
The Last Poets,
The Skatalites,
Pylon,
Anthony Braxton,
The Associates,
The Grass Roots,
T.S.O.L.,
The Evens,
Mars,
Joe Smooth,
Excepter,
Q65,
Kas Product,
Byron Stingily,
Rakim,
Interpol,
The Dead C,
FM Einheit,
Lucky Dragons,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Zeros,
Dawn Penn,
Adolescents,
Cecil Taylor,
Radiopuhelimet,
Desert Stars,
Das Ding,
Grauzone,
Hardrive,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Flipper,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Monks,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Human League,
Eurythmics,
The Kinks,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.