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 France and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All Public Image Ltd. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Duran Duran,
Cameo,
Matthew Halsall,
Harry Pussy,
Eurythmics,
Kerri Chandler,
Byron Stingily,
Marvin Gaye,
Mars,
Gang of Four,
Lou Reed,
Ponytail,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The United States of America,
The Pretty Things,
Vladislav Delay,
Funkadelic,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pierre Henry,
Average White Band,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Saccharine Trust,
the Germs,
Susan Cadogan,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Misunderstood,
Freddie Wadling,
Eddi Front,
The Golliwogs,
Joey Negro,
Glenn Branca,
David Axelrod,
These Immortal Souls,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scrapy,
Section 25,
Flipper,
Roy Ayers,
Pagans,
Anthony Braxton,
Skarface,
Delon & Dalcan,
Pere Ubu,
The Motions,
Archie Shepp,
Camouflage,
Rosa Yemen,
Nation of Ulysses,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Hashim,
Quantec,
CMW,
Roxette,
Man Eating Sloth,
H. Thieme,
Robert Görl,
Clear Light,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Cluster,
Ralphi Rosario,
Interpol,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.