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 Greece and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Brick to the techno 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neu! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fortunes,
Gong,
DJ Sneak,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Electric Prunes,
The Skatalites,
Bob Dylan,
Marshall Jefferson,
EPMD,
Camberwell Now,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Electric Prunes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fugs,
Section 25,
Clear Light,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Chris & Cosey,
Gang Gang Dance,
Chrome,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Iggy Pop,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Buckinghams,
Masters at Work,
Wally Richardson,
Rod Modell,
Aaron Thompson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Smoke,
Eric Copeland,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stiv Bators,
Icehouse,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Roxy Music,
The Saints,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kevin Saunderson,
Joe Smooth,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Unrelated Segments,
Minnie Riperton,
Minor Threat,
New York Dolls,
Roger Hodgson,
Cluster,
The Walker Brothers,
Bootsy Collins,
Erasure,
Q65,
Peter & Gordon,
Eddi Front,
Skaos,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Faust,
Godley & Creme,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.