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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 David Bowie 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 Newcleus to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scratch Acid record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Beau Brummels,
Robert Wyatt,
Matthew Bourne,
Index,
Minutemen,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Vladislav Delay,
The Star Department,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Mo-Dettes,
The Fall,
New York Dolls,
The Invisible,
Swell Maps,
Frankie Knuckles,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
In Retrospect,
Scan 7,
Don Cherry,
Visage,
Lebanon Hanover,
Crispy Ambulance,
Radiohead,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Icehouse,
Wings,
Reagan Youth,
Curtis Mayfield,
Deadbeat,
Quando Quango,
The Pop Group,
Throbbing Gristle,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
X-102,
Marc Almond,
Interpol,
Gichy Dan,
Scion,
The Associates,
the Fania All-Stars,
Danielle Patucci,
Agent Orange,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Happenings,
Public Image Ltd.,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Alice Coltrane,
Davy DMX,
Ultravox,
Aural Exciters,
The Evens,
Arab on Radar,
Jandek,
Stiv Bators,
Eve St. Jones,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Human League,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.