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 Andorra and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the rock 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Patti Smith,
Warsaw,
Wire,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Isaac Hayes,
Mo-Dettes,
Simply Red,
Joey Negro,
The Moody Blues,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ituana,
The Monks,
Q65,
Japan,
The Alarm Clocks,
D'Angelo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eurythmics,
The Invisible,
This Heat,
Kaleidoscope,
Minny Pops,
Junior Murvin,
Stetsasonic,
John Foxx,
Scott Walker,
Skarface,
Brick,
Mantronix,
Excepter,
Quando Quango,
Jacques Brel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Maurizio,
Magma,
Masters at Work,
Animal Collective,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Quadrant,
Youth Brigade,
Danielle Patucci,
Boogie Down Productions,
Pylon,
Althea and Donna,
Popol Vuh,
Faraquet,
the Swans,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scrapy,
The New Christs,
The Sonics,
Lee Hazlewood,
Moby Grape,
DNA,
The Buckinghams,
Easy Going,
JFA,
Thompson Twins,
Crooked Eye,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Lightning Bolt,
The Stooges,
The Smiths,
Dave Gahan,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.