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 United Kingdom and from Houston.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator 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 Judy Mowatt to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dawn Penn record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Görl record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Sonic Youth,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Magazine,
Shuggie Otis,
Joey Negro,
The Grass Roots,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Half Japanese,
Barrington Levy,
MDC,
Black Moon,
Mantronix,
Scion,
Erykah Badu,
Rites of Spring,
Marshall Jefferson,
Tres Demented,
Arthur Verocai,
Letta Mbulu,
Main Source,
Fela Kuti,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Selecter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ludus,
Ultravox,
Sister Nancy,
The Divine Comedy,
La Düsseldorf,
World's Most,
The Pop Group,
Rekid,
Chris Corsano,
Sixth Finger,
Skarface,
The Evens,
Soft Cell,
Bob Dylan,
Quadrant,
Neil Young,
Bauhaus,
The Leaves,
Zapp,
New York Dolls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Skatalites,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sparks,
Aloha Tigers,
The New Christs,
The Dirtbombs,
Boredoms,
Stockholm Monsters,
Radiopuhelimet,
Gang Green,
The Mojo Men,
Barry Ungar,
Subhumans,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.