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 Dominican Republic and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Circle Jerks to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Essential Logic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The J.B.'s,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The New Christs,
Soft Cell,
DJ Sneak,
Flash Fearless,
The Seeds,
Judy Mowatt,
Faust,
Deakin,
Dead Boys,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Idris Muhammad,
Brothers Johnson,
The Slits,
Boz Scaggs,
Cymande,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scott Walker,
Altered Images,
The Techniques,
The Monks,
Pole,
Warren Ellis,
Janne Schatter,
Derrick May,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Smiths,
Jandek,
The Cramps,
Minnie Riperton,
Sarah Menescal,
Black Pus,
The Modern Lovers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Velvet Underground,
Ralphi Rosario,
Schoolly D,
Wasted Youth,
The Sound,
Jeff Lynne,
Slave,
Brass Construction,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Residents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Girls At Our Best!,
Scratch Acid,
Todd Terry,
Scrapy,
Unwound,
Avey Tare,
Deadbeat,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Remains,
Eden Ahbez,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.