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 Benin and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Flag,
The Doobie Brothers,
Flipper,
Chrome,
Agent Orange,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Terry Callier,
Gil Scott Heron,
Audionom,
10cc,
The Dave Clark Five,
Marc Almond,
Absolute Body Control,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Skarface,
Loose Ends,
Marvin Gaye,
Soft Machine,
Sam Rivers,
Urselle,
Khruangbin,
The Gap Band,
Nico,
Maleditus Sound,
Siglo XX,
The Searchers,
Avey Tare,
John Foxx,
The Selecter,
Gichy Dan,
Charles Mingus,
Bluetip,
Roy Ayers,
Severed Heads,
Ronan,
The Fortunes,
Funky Four + One,
Nils Olav,
The Fire Engines,
Godley & Creme,
Alton Ellis,
Cameo,
Flash Fearless,
Goldenarms,
Bob Dylan,
Metal Thangz,
T.S.O.L.,
Steve Hackett,
Delta 5,
Unrelated Segments,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sex Pistols,
The Residents,
China Crisis,
The Seeds,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Trojans,
Connie Case,
Gong,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.