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 Kyrgyzstan and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Colin Newman to the disco 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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Barracudas,
JFA,
Eddi Front,
48th St. Collective,
Electric Prunes,
Sight & Sound,
Agent Orange,
Black Moon,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
One Last Wish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kurtis Blow,
Eli Mardock,
Crime,
The Velvet Underground,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fela Kuti,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Simply Red,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Guru Guru,
8 Eyed Spy,
Duran Duran,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Neu!,
Roxy Music,
Dawn Penn,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jacques Brel,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jeru the Damaja,
Neil Young,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Golliwogs,
Alison Limerick,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Neon Judgement,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Associates,
The Gladiators,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lower 48,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bootsy Collins,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Saccharine Trust,
Icehouse,
DJ Sneak,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Glenn Branca,
Crooked Eye,
The Busters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Janne Schatter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aswad,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.