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 United Kingdom and from Seoul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Philadelphia.
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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Leaves to the electroclash 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Toni Rubio,
Model 500,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Echospace,
MDC,
B.T. Express,
Todd Rundgren,
The Gap Band,
Bill Near,
Japan,
The Count Five,
Heaven 17,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
June Days,
Joensuu 1685,
Harpers Bizarre,
Scientists,
The Pretty Things,
ABC,
Lyres,
Peter and Kerry,
Spoonie Gee,
AZ,
Blossom Toes,
Barbara Tucker,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Golliwogs,
Jerry's Kids,
Qualms,
Hardrive,
Bauhaus,
Black Pus,
D'Angelo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soft Cell,
Lower 48,
Au Pairs,
Janne Schatter,
The Detroit Cobras,
Unwound,
the Slits,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eric Dolphy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Khruangbin,
Kas Product,
David Bowie,
The Invisible,
The Stooges,
Fluxion,
Adolescents,
Cymande,
Flash Fearless,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Birthday Party,
Wolf Eyes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Desert Stars,
Cecil Taylor,
the Germs,
The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.
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.