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 Argentina and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 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 Mark Hollis to the punk 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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Skarface,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Monks,
Ludus,
Prince Buster,
Ultravox,
Average White Band,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Fall,
Robert Hood,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eve St. Jones,
Pere Ubu,
Derrick Morgan,
The Grass Roots,
The Associates,
The Neon Judgement,
Underground Resistance,
Ornette Coleman,
Shoche,
Joey Negro,
Make Up,
The Gories,
Michelle Simonal,
Piero Umiliani,
T.S.O.L.,
AZ,
Soulsonic Force,
Fluxion,
Marvin Gaye,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cecil Taylor,
Theoretical Girls,
Fear,
Maleditus Sound,
Vainqueur,
Unrelated Segments,
The Motions,
Icehouse,
Deepchord,
Avey Tare,
Joensuu 1685,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Altered Images,
Roxette,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Basic Channel,
Jacques Brel,
Roxy Music,
Von Mondo,
Intrusion,
Public Enemy,
Lakeside,
Delta 5,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Tom Boy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
a-ha,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.