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 Thailand and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Fall to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Pole tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Public Image Ltd. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shoche record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Big Daddy Kane,
Morten Harket,
Niagra,
Talk Talk,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Joyce Sims,
Eden Ahbez,
Adolescents,
Drive Like Jehu,
Maurizio,
Joy Division,
Jeff Lynne,
the Association,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Crime,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stetsasonic,
Eric B and Rakim,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Crash Course in Science,
Black Sheep,
Brass Construction,
Rakim,
EPMD,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lower 48,
In Retrospect,
Curtis Mayfield,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Misunderstood,
Zapp,
Frankie Knuckles,
Erykah Badu,
Sight & Sound,
OOIOO,
The Music Machine,
James White and The Blacks,
Blossom Toes,
MC5,
Gichy Dan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Hot Snakes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gong,
The Raincoats,
Dave Gahan,
Unwound,
Laurel Aitken,
Black Bananas,
Maleditus Sound,
Ronnie Foster,
Y Pants,
Agent Orange,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Tom Boy,
David Bowie,
Barry Ungar,
Qualms,
Babytalk,
Sarah Menescal,
Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions, Dual Sessions.
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.