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 Argentina and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Michael McDonald 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 Minny Pops 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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Banda Bassotti record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shuggie Otis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Duran Duran,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joe Finger,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
These Immortal Souls,
Ludus,
Ohio Players,
The Sonics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Gil Scott Heron,
Yaz,
New Order,
H. Thieme,
Chris & Cosey,
FM Einheit,
Easy Going,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
China Crisis,
Althea and Donna,
Drexciya,
Stiv Bators,
ABBA,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Delon & Dalcan,
Skriet,
Fad Gadget,
Nils Olav,
Davy DMX,
Dual Sessions,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Blackbyrds,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Eli Mardock,
Lucky Dragons,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soulsonic Force,
Leonard Cohen,
Roger Hodgson,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Amon Düül,
Aswad,
Rosa Yemen,
The Dead C,
Nico,
Fat Boys,
The Electric Prunes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Toni Rubio,
cv313,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Roxette,
Piero Umiliani,
Arab on Radar,
Blancmange,
The Residents,
Niagra,
Sister Nancy,
Lightning Bolt,
DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak, DJ Sneak.
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.