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 Azerbaijan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Beijing.
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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ultravox to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All The Sisters of Mercy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Second Layer record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez 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?
Isaac Hayes,
Minutemen,
Gong,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Malaria!,
Quando Quango,
Jeff Mills,
Section 25,
China Crisis,
The Zeros,
Pole,
Arthur Verocai,
Brothers Johnson,
Gabor Szabo,
Gang Starr,
Howard Jones,
Pere Ubu,
The Cramps,
The Young Rascals,
Brick,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Gories,
Index,
Wolf Eyes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Chris Corsano,
Duran Duran,
Soul II Soul,
The Martian,
Arab on Radar,
Gang Green,
Throbbing Gristle,
Altered Images,
Hasil Adkins,
The Red Krayola,
Mantronix,
Boogie Down Productions,
Fatback Band,
Nas,
Smog,
Funky Four + One,
Television,
Kevin Saunderson,
the Bar-Kays,
It's A Beautiful Day,
World's Most,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brass Construction,
Icehouse,
Mars,
Bizarre Inc.,
Japan,
PIL,
Laurel Aitken,
The Skatalites,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Warren Ellis,
Interpol,
The Raincoats,
Funkadelic,
The Count Five,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.