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 Switzerland and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 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 Fat Boys to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Dave Clark Five,
Alice Coltrane,
Stetsasonic,
The Motions,
Subhumans,
Ponytail,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Roger Hodgson,
Cheater Slicks,
Hashim,
Slick Rick,
The Cramps,
Nas,
Depeche Mode,
Japan,
Section 25,
Glenn Branca,
Wolf Eyes,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Animal Collective,
John Lydon,
Wire,
The Raincoats,
Technova,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
AZ,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joey Negro,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Blossom Toes,
Pierre Henry,
Pantytec,
X-101,
Khruangbin,
Audionom,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Evens,
Kurtis Blow,
Desert Stars,
Black Moon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Masters at Work,
Fatback Band,
Sixth Finger,
Roxette,
Black Bananas,
Man Parrish,
Tim Buckley,
The Fuzztones,
Con Funk Shun,
cv313,
Electric Light Orchestra,
L. Decosne,
Tomorrow,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scion,
Absolute Body Control,
Malaria!,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.