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 China and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba 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 Todd Terry to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 the Human League. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Young Marble Giants record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ten City,
Television Personalities,
KRS-One,
Bauhaus,
DNA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eve St. Jones,
Tres Demented,
Mad Mike,
Masters at Work,
Chris Corsano,
Derrick May,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
CMW,
The Residents,
Pylon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Radiohead,
Moebius,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dead Boys,
Panda Bear,
X-101,
Darondo,
Flamin' Groovies,
Eurythmics,
Zero Boys,
Agent Orange,
The Fire Engines,
Negative Approach,
Dawn Penn,
Kurtis Blow,
Marcia Griffiths,
Prince Buster,
EPMD,
Grandmaster Flash,
Joe Smooth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
ABC,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
World's Most,
Todd Terry,
Cheater Slicks,
Average White Band,
X-102,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Moody Blues,
Eric B and Rakim,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Niagra,
Vainqueur,
Cluster,
The Beau Brummels,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eddi Front,
These Immortal Souls,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Divine Comedy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.