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 Poland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fugazi to the funk 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 Grandmaster Flash. All the underground hits.
All Nas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Thee Headcoats,
The Offenders,
Suburban Knight,
Skaos,
L. Decosne,
The Barracudas,
Outsiders,
Marcia Griffiths,
June of 44,
Cymande,
Symarip,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Amon Düül,
Marshall Jefferson,
Subhumans,
Anakelly,
Shoche,
Jeff Mills,
a-ha,
Panda Bear,
The Golliwogs,
Nico,
Alison Limerick,
The Gories,
Todd Rundgren,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Model 500,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Black Moon,
Duran Duran,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Real Kids,
Michelle Simonal,
MDC,
Nas,
World's Most,
The Slits,
Wire,
Intrusion,
The Raincoats,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Five Americans,
Wolf Eyes,
Nation of Ulysses,
10cc,
Funky Four + One,
Jacob Miller,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fear,
Gong,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tres Demented,
Letta Mbulu,
Tim Buckley,
Henry Cow,
Lindisfarne,
Marvin Gaye,
Masters at Work,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.