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 Guinea-Bissau and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 organ 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 Royal Trux to the grime 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 Kango’s Stein Massive. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Human League,
Television Personalities,
Donny Hathaway,
EPMD,
Simply Red,
Judy Mowatt,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minny Pops,
Barbara Tucker,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Star Department,
Brass Construction,
Depeche Mode,
Guru Guru,
The Barracudas,
Ohio Players,
Connie Case,
DJ Style,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Robert Görl,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Vogues,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Main Source,
Lungfish,
Yazoo,
Kaleidoscope,
Arab on Radar,
Gregory Isaacs,
Cymande,
Slave,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Angels of Light,
Carl Craig,
Drexciya,
Crash Course in Science,
Marvin Gaye,
Nils Olav,
Aaron Thompson,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gichy Dan,
Severed Heads,
Flamin' Groovies,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eurythmics,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
Black Moon,
John Holt,
Moby Grape,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Cale,
The Music Machine,
The Pretty Things,
Stiv Bators,
Groovy Waters,
X-Ray Spex,
The Sisters of Mercy,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.