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 Uruguay and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 organ 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grunge 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Peanut Butter Conspiracy 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?
Pantytec,
Section 25,
The Saints,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wire,
Rosa Yemen,
The Leaves,
FM Einheit,
Second Layer,
Monks,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Happenings,
Arab on Radar,
Reuben Wilson,
The Gap Band,
Juan Atkins,
cv313,
Newcleus,
Bronski Beat,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Angry Samoans,
Excepter,
Brothers Johnson,
X-102,
Magma,
Nico,
Lucky Dragons,
The Doobie Brothers,
Susan Cadogan,
Bootsy Collins,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Underground Resistance,
Tears for Fears,
Man Eating Sloth,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Swans,
John Cale,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Man Parrish,
Con Funk Shun,
Japan,
Siglo XX,
DJ Sneak,
The Knickerbockers,
Guru Guru,
LL Cool J,
Circle Jerks,
Harmonia,
Robert Görl,
Charles Mingus,
Letta Mbulu,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bobby Womack,
The Black Dice,
Essential Logic,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Beau Brummels,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.