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 Japan and from Bologna.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
The United States of America,
Unrelated Segments,
Donny Hathaway,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Von Mondo,
In Retrospect,
The Golliwogs,
Drexciya,
Jacques Brel,
The Sonics,
X-102,
Andrew Hill,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nirvana,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Music Machine,
Accadde A,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Gories,
Surgeon,
Scott Walker,
Ronnie Foster,
Young Marble Giants,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rapeman,
Sugar Minott,
Traffic Nightmare,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fluxion,
Idris Muhammad,
The Victims,
Crooked Eye,
Grey Daturas,
Underground Resistance,
Oblivians,
Letta Mbulu,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Adolescents,
Cluster,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mission of Burma,
Pantaleimon,
The Moody Blues,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Harmonia,
Tim Buckley,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Circle Jerks,
Rakim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James White and The Blacks,
Livin' Joy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mr. Review,
Lee Hazlewood,
Dark Day,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.