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 Finland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Derrick May to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Ossler,
Rod Modell,
Fear,
Gang of Four,
The Fire Engines,
Groovy Waters,
Yellowson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Negative Approach,
Camberwell Now,
Surgeon,
cv313,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pantaleimon,
Gang Green,
Moby Grape,
The Moleskins,
Ituana,
Kenny Larkin,
Terry Callier,
Section 25,
Kerrie Biddell,
Babytalk,
Anakelly,
Ronnie Foster,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Zapp,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Sound,
Isaac Hayes,
X-Ray Spex,
Josef K,
Livin' Joy,
Can,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Drexciya,
10cc,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Average White Band,
Theoretical Girls,
Eve St. Jones,
The J.B.'s,
Faraquet,
Skarface,
Ludus,
The Martian,
Peter and Kerry,
Peter & Gordon,
Roxette,
Soft Machine,
Susan Cadogan,
Q and Not U,
Deepchord,
Glambeats Corp.,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fluxion,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lucky Dragons,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.