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 China and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Sao Paulo.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Negative Approach to the dance 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 Can. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Magazine,
The Offenders,
Deadbeat,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Raincoats,
Alphaville,
Marc Almond,
Country Teasers,
Grandmaster Flash,
Faraquet,
The Fugs,
Half Japanese,
Pet Shop Boys,
Procol Harum,
Girls At Our Best!,
Todd Terry,
Wasted Youth,
Derrick Morgan,
Funky Four + One,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Dead Boys,
Metal Thangz,
Pantaleimon,
Chris & Cosey,
Sonny Sharrock,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fela Kuti,
Fluxion,
Rhythm & Sound,
China Crisis,
KRS-One,
Nick Fraelich,
Echospace,
CMW,
James White and The Blacks,
The Blackbyrds,
Carl Craig,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pierre Henry,
MC5,
Boogie Down Productions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Victims,
Sound Behaviour,
Niagra,
Harmonia,
The Beau Brummels,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Moon,
Black Bananas,
Motorama,
Lakeside,
The Cramps,
Nas,
Sonic Youth,
Skaos,
Shuggie Otis,
Soul II Soul,
Albert Ayler,
Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn, Dawn Penn.
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.