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 Armenia and from Lyon.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Hardrive to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fire Engines 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?
Soulsonic Force,
Public Enemy,
Pole,
Joensuu 1685,
Matthew Bourne,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Clear Light,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Anthony Braxton,
Gichy Dan,
A Certain Ratio,
Thee Headcoats,
Metal Thangz,
The Mummies,
Procol Harum,
Slick Rick,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Slave,
Alison Limerick,
Average White Band,
Absolute Body Control,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ponytail,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Seeds,
La Düsseldorf,
Juan Atkins,
Unwound,
Blancmange,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Monochrome Set,
Gang of Four,
Altered Images,
Silicon Teens,
Sonic Youth,
Sex Pistols,
Mark Hollis,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Outsiders,
The Doobie Brothers,
Spandau Ballet,
Soft Cell,
Black Moon,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Camouflage,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Laurel Aitken,
Yusef Lateef,
Ronnie Foster,
The Slackers,
the Sonics,
Masters at Work,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Junior Murvin,
The Techniques,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bizarre Inc.,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.