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 Lucia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Houston and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Make Up to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stiv Bators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deepchord,
China Crisis,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Red Krayola,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Qualms,
Harpers Bizarre,
Isaac Hayes,
Ten City,
Max Romeo,
The Walker Brothers,
X-Ray Spex,
These Immortal Souls,
Hoover,
Outsiders,
Aloha Tigers,
Barrington Levy,
Neu!,
The Misunderstood,
Unrelated Segments,
Sun Ra,
Heaven 17,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mary Jane Girls,
Crash Course in Science,
Henry Cow,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bob Dylan,
The Residents,
The Young Rascals,
The Offenders,
Goldenarms,
Brick,
Neil Young,
Symarip,
ABC,
Pole,
Pylon,
Schoolly D,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Hasil Adkins,
Wolf Eyes,
Crime,
Scion,
Rhythm & Sound,
Gang Green,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marc Almond,
CMW,
The Grass Roots,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bill Wells,
Groovy Waters,
Toni Rubio,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The New Christs,
Scan 7,
Vladislav Delay,
Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps, Swell Maps.
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.