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 Lithuania and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 808 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the punk 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 Kings Of Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Wake 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fluxion,
Dark Day,
Crime,
Marc Almond,
Davy DMX,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Todd Terry,
The New Christs,
Danielle Patucci,
Procol Harum,
Liliput,
E-Dancer,
Motorama,
Bootsy Collins,
Parry Music,
Dual Sessions,
T.S.O.L.,
Outsiders,
The Mojo Men,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Pussy Galore,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Youth Brigade,
48th St. Collective,
Silicon Teens,
F. McDonald,
Black Flag,
Guru Guru,
Joy Division,
Simply Red,
Wings,
X-102,
Freddie Wadling,
The Star Department,
R.M.O.,
Isaac Hayes,
Vladislav Delay,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Make Up,
The Leaves,
Josef K,
The Fuzztones,
Bizarre Inc.,
Moss Icon,
Stiv Bators,
8 Eyed Spy,
John Coltrane,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Moleskins,
Leonard Cohen,
Fatback Band,
Heaven 17,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Avey Tare,
The Smiths,
Bobby Byrd,
Circle Jerks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lightning Bolt,
The Invisible,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Andrew Hill,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sparks, Sparks, Sparks, Sparks.
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.