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 the UAE and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Michael McDonald 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 X-101 to the disco 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
Nation of Ulysses,
Marcia Griffiths,
Q65,
Royal Trux,
Cecil Taylor,
Barrington Levy,
Section 25,
Maleditus Sound,
Joey Negro,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
John Coltrane,
Absolute Body Control,
Lebanon Hanover,
Wolf Eyes,
Motorama,
June Days,
UT,
The Cowsills,
Alphaville,
Arthur Verocai,
Morten Harket,
Excepter,
Warren Ellis,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Agitation Free,
Accadde A,
John Cale,
The Remains,
The Alarm Clocks,
Loose Ends,
Hasil Adkins,
Jacob Miller,
Bang On A Can,
John Foxx,
The Gap Band,
Banda Bassotti,
the Swans,
Eurythmics,
Youth Brigade,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Young Rascals,
Essential Logic,
Graham Central Station,
The Music Machine,
The Human League,
The Stooges,
Intrusion,
Radio Birdman,
Au Pairs,
Franke,
The Busters,
Grauzone,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ultravox,
Gong,
Nico,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Blossom Toes,
Be Bop Deluxe,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.