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 Croatia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Eve St. Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every KRS-One 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
UT,
Joe Finger,
Juan Atkins,
Terrestrial Tones,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pantytec,
Unwound,
The Misunderstood,
Marcia Griffiths,
Max Romeo,
EPMD,
Fear,
Kas Product,
Swans,
R.M.O.,
The Walker Brothers,
Minny Pops,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mars,
David McCallum,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ludus,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Icehouse,
Monolake,
Warren Ellis,
MDC,
Mantronix,
Letta Mbulu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Brass Construction,
Cheater Slicks,
The Victims,
The Real Kids,
Shoche,
The Sonics,
Mandrill,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dawn Penn,
Simply Red,
Kurtis Blow,
Junior Murvin,
Lalo Schifrin,
Gerry Rafferty,
Essential Logic,
Alice Coltrane,
Robert Wyatt,
Jacob Miller,
The Fortunes,
Loose Ends,
Howard Jones,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Pus,
The Busters,
Reagan Youth,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tim Buckley,
Funky Four + One,
Scrapy,
The Blackbyrds,
Boz Scaggs,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.