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 Ethiopia and from Mexico City.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
Pierre Henry,
Average White Band,
Roxy Music,
The Moody Blues,
Lalo Schifrin,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rotary Connection,
Kurtis Blow,
Dennis Brown,
Boogie Down Productions,
Flash Fearless,
The Buckinghams,
Grey Daturas,
Deepchord,
Cal Tjader,
Aaron Thompson,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Marc Almond,
Gang Green,
The Birthday Party,
Absolute Body Control,
DNA,
Rhythm & Sound,
Basic Channel,
Royal Trux,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Big Daddy Kane,
One Last Wish,
Hardrive,
L. Decosne,
Tom Boy,
Bobby Womack,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Stooges,
Marshall Jefferson,
Index,
Faraquet,
Todd Terry,
Monks,
Lucky Dragons,
Echospace,
Grauzone,
Dave Gahan,
In Retrospect,
Wings,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Symarip,
Boz Scaggs,
Bronski Beat,
Electric Light Orchestra,
June of 44,
Camberwell Now,
Brick,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Radiohead,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.