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 Sierra Leone and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 spring reverb 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 Sällskapet to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Chrome. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Basic Channel 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
The Mojo Men,
The Doobie Brothers,
Nas,
Ossler,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ohio Players,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Sound,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Main Source,
The Modern Lovers,
Sonic Youth,
Kas Product,
Ice-T,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pierre Henry,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Saints,
Supertramp,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Scientists,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kaleidoscope,
Spoonie Gee,
Franke,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Normal,
Erasure,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Siglo XX,
FM Einheit,
PIL,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eric Copeland,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camberwell Now,
Erykah Badu,
Warren Ellis,
Pet Shop Boys,
This Heat,
Janne Schatter,
Brand Nubian,
Bush Tetras,
Freddie Wadling,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Japan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Zapp,
Wolf Eyes,
Lower 48,
Patti Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
Bill Near,
Fad Gadget,
K-Klass,
Icehouse,
Bad Manners,
Lucky Dragons,
10cc, 10cc, 10cc, 10cc.
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.