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 Cambodia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Gastr Del Sol to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Index. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
Terrestrial Tones,
A Certain Ratio,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Music Machine,
Steve Hackett,
Hoover,
Howard Jones,
Banda Bassotti,
The Offenders,
Gabor Szabo,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pierre Henry,
Soft Cell,
Marmalade,
Wally Richardson,
Hashim,
Swans,
Adolescents,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
World's Most,
The Count Five,
FM Einheit,
Bronski Beat,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Faraquet,
Brass Construction,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kerri Chandler,
The Moody Blues,
Y Pants,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
June Days,
The Toasters,
Altered Images,
Neil Young,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Gong,
Section 25,
Piero Umiliani,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Lebanon Hanover,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boredoms,
Morten Harket,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Red Krayola,
Jesper Dahlback,
Babytalk,
Iggy Pop,
Franke,
MDC,
Max Romeo,
Deadbeat,
June of 44,
Organ,
Swell Maps,
Slave,
Icehouse,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.