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 Peru and from Edmonton.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Radiopuhelimet to the techno 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 The Offenders. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mantronix,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Suicide,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
ABBA,
Alison Limerick,
The Slackers,
K-Klass,
Spandau Ballet,
JFA,
Panda Bear,
The Gap Band,
Bluetip,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pulsallama,
Albert Ayler,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cymande,
The Modern Lovers,
Intrusion,
Technova,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Yaz,
Babytalk,
Roxette,
Heaven 17,
Average White Band,
Mandrill,
Susan Cadogan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lyres,
Morten Harket,
Graham Central Station,
The Fire Engines,
Hasil Adkins,
The Birthday Party,
The Residents,
Gang of Four,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Joey Negro,
The Durutti Column,
Peter & Gordon,
Unrelated Segments,
Rod Modell,
Royal Trux,
La Düsseldorf,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Can,
Ossler,
Infiniti,
Q and Not U,
The Beau Brummels,
the Human League,
Mark Hollis,
Clear Light,
Basic Channel,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.