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 Czech Republic and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 The Fall 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 The Saints. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Quantec,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Jeff Mills,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Brick,
Matthew Halsall,
Iggy Pop,
Chrome,
Barrington Levy,
Unrelated Segments,
New Age Steppers,
Sex Pistols,
Charles Mingus,
The Velvet Underground,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Soft Machine,
In Retrospect,
Excepter,
Deepchord,
Reuben Wilson,
Fatback Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Slackers,
Godley & Creme,
Rekid,
Simply Red,
LL Cool J,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Cecil Taylor,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Smiths,
The Zeros,
Mission of Burma,
MC5,
Rotary Connection,
The Monochrome Set,
X-101,
Accadde A,
Harmonia,
Robert Görl,
Bill Near,
K-Klass,
La Düsseldorf,
Little Man,
Ultra Naté,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Piero Umiliani,
Glambeats Corp.,
The New Christs,
Stetsasonic,
Alphaville,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Move,
Roxette,
Camouflage,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Intrusion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Desert Stars,
Youth Brigade,
Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics, Eurythmics.
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.