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 New Zealand and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Tubeway Army to the disco 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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
The Martian,
New Order,
The Litter,
Rotary Connection,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Inner City,
Skaos,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Outsiders,
Funky Four + One,
JFA,
Bill Wells,
Delta 5,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Blake Baxter,
Rekid,
Godley & Creme,
Amon Düül II,
Black Flag,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Al Stewart,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tears for Fears,
Guru Guru,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lyres,
T. Rex,
David Axelrod,
Banda Bassotti,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Negative Approach,
Thompson Twins,
Heaven 17,
The Blackbyrds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Offenders,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Agent Orange,
Metal Thangz,
Pulsallama,
James White and The Blacks,
Marmalade,
Black Bananas,
Chrome,
48th St. Collective,
Rakim,
Bauhaus,
Lungfish,
Dave Gahan,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lakeside,
Camouflage,
Young Marble Giants,
Peter and Kerry,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Charles Mingus,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.