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 Sri Lanka and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marc Almond record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delta 5,
Lou Christie,
The Wake,
Gang Green,
Dorothy Ashby,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Evens,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Vladislav Delay,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Youth Brigade,
Bobby Byrd,
OOIOO,
Das Ding,
MC5,
The Knickerbockers,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Stockholm Monsters,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Reuben Wilson,
Gang Starr,
June of 44,
Sixth Finger,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Los Fastidios,
Marcia Griffiths,
Half Japanese,
Toni Rubio,
Fela Kuti,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bluetip,
Brand Nubian,
Avey Tare,
Robert Görl,
The Cramps,
Jerry's Kids,
Chris & Cosey,
the Normal,
Angry Samoans,
Slick Rick,
JFA,
The Blues Magoos,
Tropical Tobacco,
Skaos,
Eric B and Rakim,
Monolake,
Fluxion,
Joe Finger,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Grauzone,
Althea and Donna,
Grandmaster Flash,
Moss Icon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Mo-Dettes,
The Divine Comedy,
Depeche Mode,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.