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 Guinea and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 harpsichord 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 The Fire Engines to the rap 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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole 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 a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Hashim,
Motorama,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bang On A Can,
Accadde A,
Crooked Eye,
Ronan,
Joe Finger,
Minny Pops,
Black Sheep,
The Invisible,
Sexual Harrassment,
D'Angelo,
Cluster,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Fania All-Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Knickerbockers,
Vladislav Delay,
Roxette,
Sam Rivers,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mantronix,
DJ Style,
Darondo,
Marvin Gaye,
Anakelly,
Stereo Dub,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Young Marble Giants,
Peter and Kerry,
Ornette Coleman,
Arab on Radar,
Marmalade,
Masters at Work,
The Kinks,
The Saints,
Urselle,
Hasil Adkins,
Heaven 17,
Peter & Gordon,
Mandrill,
Joey Negro,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Schoolly D,
Ponytail,
Pere Ubu,
EPMD,
Whodini,
Symarip,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
DNA,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Pus,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Organ,
The Names, The Names, The Names, The Names.
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.