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 Belize and from Madrid.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Scrapy to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quadrant,
Visage,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Seeds,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
CMW,
Pere Ubu,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Symarip,
Audionom,
Lee Hazlewood,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Maleditus Sound,
Wolf Eyes,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Fat Boys,
the Human League,
Scrapy,
June of 44,
Andrew Hill,
DNA,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Minny Pops,
Suicide,
Drexciya,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Public Image Ltd.,
Roy Ayers,
Sun Ra,
Sam Rivers,
Al Stewart,
48th St. Collective,
The United States of America,
Grey Daturas,
Moss Icon,
The Grass Roots,
Kurtis Blow,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Panda Bear,
Terrestrial Tones,
Scion,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mad Mike,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Smog,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Walker Brothers,
K-Klass,
The Knickerbockers,
Wally Richardson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Surgeon,
Reagan Youth,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Eli Mardock,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.