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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Milan.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Throbbing Gristle to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kevin Saunderson,
Kerri Chandler,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gerry Rafferty,
Peter & Gordon,
The Knickerbockers,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Godley & Creme,
Janne Schatter,
David McCallum,
La Düsseldorf,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sarah Menescal,
Scion,
the Sonics,
Shoche,
Arab on Radar,
Schoolly D,
Barbara Tucker,
Trumans Water,
Rufus Thomas,
a-ha,
Bill Wells,
DJ Style,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Pagans,
Sex Pistols,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Sonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
KRS-One,
Ponytail,
Smog,
Rod Modell,
This Heat,
The Mojo Men,
Pussy Galore,
Bronski Beat,
Judy Mowatt,
Little Man,
Lalo Schifrin,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joensuu 1685,
The Walker Brothers,
Lucky Dragons,
The Wake,
Unrelated Segments,
Buzzcocks,
Freddie Wadling,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Blossom Toes,
Sun City Girls,
The Dirtbombs,
Altered Images,
The Slackers,
Hoover,
Eli Mardock,
The Fall,
Motorama,
the Soft Cell,
Youth Brigade,
Minnie Riperton,
Jeru the Damaja,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.