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 Luxembourg and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 oboe 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the punk 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 Trumans Water. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Ralphi Rosario,
Todd Rundgren,
Easy Going,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Blues Magoos,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Gun Club,
Rod Modell,
Niagra,
Silicon Teens,
Lalann,
Barbara Tucker,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Barrington Levy,
Deakin,
Derrick Morgan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mission of Burma,
Carl Craig,
Das Ding,
Skarface,
The United States of America,
Ultra Naté,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Animal Collective,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bad Manners,
The Shadows of Knight,
Letta Mbulu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Negative Approach,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Suicide,
Frankie Knuckles,
48th St. Collective,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Doors,
Index,
Gang Green,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bob Dylan,
Icehouse,
Rakim,
AZ,
Johnny Clarke,
Quando Quango,
Robert Wyatt,
Shoche,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Tom Boy,
The Doobie Brothers,
Freddie Wadling,
Nick Fraelich,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Agent Orange,
World's Most,
Whodini,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.