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 Sierra Leone and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 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 Leonard Cohen to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All The Mighty Diamonds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rites of Spring,
Yazoo,
One Last Wish,
the Germs,
Clear Light,
The Young Rascals,
Pole,
Chris Corsano,
Warren Ellis,
L. Decosne,
The Cowsills,
Kas Product,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultra Naté,
Marc Almond,
Jandek,
Adolescents,
Dual Sessions,
Moss Icon,
Amon Düül,
PIL,
David McCallum,
The Birthday Party,
Jeru the Damaja,
Godley & Creme,
John Foxx,
Kurtis Blow,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dead Boys,
The Cure,
Average White Band,
Index,
Shoche,
Livin' Joy,
Echospace,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
D'Angelo,
Rotary Connection,
Q and Not U,
Thompson Twins,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joy Division,
Aswad,
The Electric Prunes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Half Japanese,
Pantytec,
Roy Ayers,
Alphaville,
Procol Harum,
Gichy Dan,
The Cramps,
Mad Mike,
Albert Ayler,
Marcia Griffiths,
Marvin Gaye,
Soulsonic Force,
Kerrie Biddell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.