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 Suriname and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 chamberlin 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 Amon Düül II to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every T.S.O.L. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
Agent Orange,
Prince Buster,
Crime,
Urselle,
Bauhaus,
Ronan,
Faust,
Joe Finger,
Lucky Dragons,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kerri Chandler,
The Barracudas,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Brass Construction,
The Detroit Cobras,
Metal Thangz,
Agitation Free,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dark Day,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Pretty Things,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Associates,
Idris Muhammad,
The Fall,
The Dave Clark Five,
Thompson Twins,
Stiv Bators,
Lou Reed,
Throbbing Gristle,
Amon Düül II,
Judy Mowatt,
Skaos,
Pet Shop Boys,
Stereo Dub,
Livin' Joy,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Quando Quango,
The New Christs,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Deadbeat,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Section 25,
Radiohead,
The Electric Prunes,
Popol Vuh,
Cal Tjader,
Symarip,
Letta Mbulu,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ludus,
The Velvet Underground,
F. McDonald,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Nils Olav,
Crash Course in Science,
Moss Icon,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.