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 Mexico and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 synthesizer 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 Pagans to the punk 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
The Remains,
Organ,
Tubeway Army,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Blackbyrds,
Todd Terry,
the Slits,
Smog,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eric Dolphy,
Derrick Morgan,
Flash Fearless,
The Golliwogs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wire,
The Birthday Party,
KRS-One,
Marc Almond,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Patti Smith,
Funkadelic,
Aloha Tigers,
Desert Stars,
One Last Wish,
Niagra,
David McCallum,
Fear,
Tim Buckley,
F. McDonald,
Crime,
The Velvet Underground,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The New Christs,
Deepchord,
Au Pairs,
Franke,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ralphi Rosario,
Monolake,
Maleditus Sound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dennis Brown,
The Leaves,
Audionom,
China Crisis,
David Bowie,
Marcia Griffiths,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Normal,
Monks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Boogie Down Productions,
Young Marble Giants,
Gichy Dan,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.