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 East Timor and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Tom Verlaine 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 disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Be Bop Deluxe,
John Lydon,
World's Most,
Grandmaster Flash,
Flash Fearless,
The Walker Brothers,
MC5,
Technova,
Adolescents,
Gichy Dan,
Graham Central Station,
Youth Brigade,
Kaleidoscope,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Selecter,
The Motions,
The Knickerbockers,
Yusef Lateef,
Kurtis Blow,
Boredoms,
Quando Quango,
Scan 7,
Bill Wells,
Pet Shop Boys,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Roger Hodgson,
Soft Cell,
PIL,
R.M.O.,
Boz Scaggs,
Maurizio,
Pharoah Sanders,
Smog,
The Alarm Clocks,
Easy Going,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Fatback Band,
Nick Fraelich,
The Moleskins,
Delta 5,
H. Thieme,
The J.B.'s,
Infiniti,
The Skatalites,
Patti Smith,
FM Einheit,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dave Gahan,
The Leaves,
Cluster,
Blake Baxter,
Oneida,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Monolake,
Aural Exciters,
Urselle,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Idris Muhammad,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sister Nancy,
Cymande,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.