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 Belgium and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Delon & Dalcan to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobby Sherman,
The Black Dice,
The Gun Club,
Byron Stingily,
Dennis Brown,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Al Stewart,
Amon Düül II,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nick Fraelich,
Ultra Naté,
Tears for Fears,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Parry Music,
Marmalade,
Ohio Players,
Archie Shepp,
Visage,
The Victims,
Moss Icon,
The Fortunes,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
10cc,
Cameo,
The Seeds,
Buzzcocks,
Desert Stars,
Fad Gadget,
Sugar Minott,
Marine Girls,
Albert Ayler,
Kenny Larkin,
Alphaville,
Lakeside,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Wire,
Scrapy,
Slick Rick,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Neil Young,
Bluetip,
Steve Hackett,
Pantytec,
Kaleidoscope,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Golliwogs,
James White and The Blacks,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Pretty Things,
The Young Rascals,
Lou Christie,
X-Ray Spex,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Audionom,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.