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 Italy and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Dave Gahan to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All the Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
The Searchers,
Ornette Coleman,
the Slits,
The Monochrome Set,
Minnie Riperton,
Fluxion,
Gichy Dan,
The Detroit Cobras,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Leaves,
Basic Channel,
Bill Near,
Ludus,
Delta 5,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Jeff Mills,
Black Pus,
Vainqueur,
Kas Product,
Dennis Brown,
Wally Richardson,
Bluetip,
Nirvana,
Jerry's Kids,
Eve St. Jones,
Stereo Dub,
Bobby Sherman,
Shuggie Otis,
Alton Ellis,
DNA,
Junior Murvin,
John Foxx,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sun City Girls,
The Real Kids,
Kurtis Blow,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Barry Ungar,
Crooked Eye,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Make Up,
China Crisis,
Erasure,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Swans,
Niagra,
In Retrospect,
Von Mondo,
Maurizio,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Busters,
Vladislav Delay,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Dave Gahan,
Kerrie Biddell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Names,
Chris Corsano,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.