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 Malawi and from Mumbai.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Davy DMX to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra Arkestra 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Loose Ends,
Main Source,
The Walker Brothers,
Monks,
The Mojo Men,
MDC,
Drive Like Jehu,
PIL,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Vogues,
Public Enemy,
Kurtis Blow,
Piero Umiliani,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Althea and Donna,
Jerry's Kids,
Gang of Four,
Ultimate Spinach,
Godley & Creme,
8 Eyed Spy,
Prince Buster,
Nas,
Index,
The Dead C,
Royal Trux,
Tomorrow,
Skriet,
In Retrospect,
David Bowie,
Sun City Girls,
The Golliwogs,
Rod Modell,
Minutemen,
Stiv Bators,
Yusef Lateef,
New Age Steppers,
The Flesh Eaters,
Joe Finger,
ABC,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Television Personalities,
Neu!,
Scan 7,
Livin' Joy,
Bluetip,
Lungfish,
Crooked Eye,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agitation Free,
Stereo Dub,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ponytail,
The Raincoats,
The Five Americans,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
H. Thieme,
Ice-T,
Lakeside,
The Smiths,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.