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 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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 spring reverb 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 Bobby Sherman to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Audionom,
Surgeon,
Eric B and Rakim,
Stereo Dub,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kool Moe Dee,
Brick,
Laurel Aitken,
The United States of America,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rites of Spring,
The Toasters,
Can,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Beau Brummels,
Althea and Donna,
Motorama,
Yaz,
R.M.O.,
Faust,
Marmalade,
Tres Demented,
Hoover,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Martian,
Mary Jane Girls,
Fela Kuti,
The Velvet Underground,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fad Gadget,
Mission of Burma,
Parry Music,
The Fall,
Cybotron,
Stockholm Monsters,
LL Cool J,
Bobby Womack,
The Mojo Men,
Radiopuhelimet,
Fluxion,
Al Stewart,
Grauzone,
The Walker Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
Qualms,
The Young Rascals,
Suburban Knight,
Lightning Bolt,
Ornette Coleman,
Crooked Eye,
Zapp,
The Raincoats,
The Flesh Eaters,
OOIOO,
Marcia Griffiths,
Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Bauhaus.
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.