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 Gabon and from Tokyo.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ice-T to the rock 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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Wasted Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dennis Brown record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fear,
Procol Harum,
The Sonics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Silicon Teens,
Soulsonic Force,
Michelle Simonal,
Eden Ahbez,
Lower 48,
Eurythmics,
Ten City,
Easy Going,
Gong,
FM Einheit,
The Cure,
Darondo,
The Names,
The Beau Brummels,
The Selecter,
Brothers Johnson,
Sound Behaviour,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Hoover,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dead Boys,
Mark Hollis,
Crime,
Gang Gang Dance,
Niagra,
Scrapy,
DJ Sneak,
Massinfluence,
Hardrive,
Wolf Eyes,
The Golliwogs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
In Retrospect,
The Sound,
The Gap Band,
Scion,
Henry Cow,
Minor Threat,
Amazonics,
Marvin Gaye,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Boredoms,
Radiopuhelimet,
Neil Young,
Fad Gadget,
Dave Gahan,
The Saints,
Graham Central Station,
Peter & Gordon,
Marine Girls,
Eddi Front,
Shoche,
Desert Stars,
Drexciya,
Joey Negro,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.