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 Slovakia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Fear to the electroclash 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Jesper Dahlback,
David McCallum,
Deakin,
The Grass Roots,
Toni Rubio,
Gong,
Soul Sonic Force,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Donald Byrd,
Brick,
David Bowie,
Radiohead,
Crash Course in Science,
This Heat,
Talk Talk,
Chris Corsano,
Soulsonic Force,
Thee Headcoats,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Fugazi,
Arthur Verocai,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pulsallama,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Intrusion,
Television Personalities,
John Coltrane,
Roxy Music,
Jeff Lynne,
Lebanon Hanover,
MC5,
Carl Craig,
Nirvana,
Cecil Taylor,
Soft Cell,
The Black Dice,
Cymande,
Whodini,
T. Rex,
Sonny Sharrock,
Hashim,
X-Ray Spex,
Pantytec,
the Fania All-Stars,
Juan Atkins,
Bootsy Collins,
Au Pairs,
Avey Tare,
Trumans Water,
The Mojo Men,
Piero Umiliani,
The Slits,
Desert Stars,
Swell Maps,
Q and Not U,
Spandau Ballet,
Los Fastidios,
Marmalade,
Average White Band,
Hardrive,
The Searchers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Jacques Brel,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.