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 Switzerland and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 Halifax and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 rhodes 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 Godley & Creme to the techno 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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five 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 an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Underground Resistance,
Henry Cow,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Circle Jerks,
Average White Band,
A Certain Ratio,
Absolute Body Control,
Byron Stingily,
Skaos,
D'Angelo,
Flash Fearless,
Basic Channel,
Essential Logic,
The J.B.'s,
Make Up,
Lou Christie,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Martian,
Shuggie Otis,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jandek,
cv313,
Kenny Larkin,
Blake Baxter,
Monks,
Eric Copeland,
The Fire Engines,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Sonics,
T.S.O.L.,
Supertramp,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Toasters,
Vainqueur,
the Normal,
Jacob Miller,
The Durutti Column,
James White and The Blacks,
DJ Sneak,
The Happenings,
Chris & Cosey,
The Names,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Mummies,
Thee Headcoats,
Gang Gang Dance,
Spandau Ballet,
Neil Young,
Aaron Thompson,
Mo-Dettes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Half Japanese,
Clear Light,
The Neon Judgement,
Josef K,
Nils Olav,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.