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 Monaco and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Toronto.
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 organ 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doobie Brothers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Oneida,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Excepter,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Morten Harket,
the Soft Cell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Juan Atkins,
The Gap Band,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Von Mondo,
Pussy Galore,
Tropical Tobacco,
Harry Pussy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bluetip,
Nirvana,
Crime,
Ituana,
Minor Threat,
Frankie Knuckles,
Moss Icon,
Blancmange,
Roger Hodgson,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Steve Hackett,
cv313,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Slackers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Harpers Bizarre,
Barry Ungar,
Bill Near,
PIL,
Ponytail,
Sex Pistols,
The Happenings,
Maurizio,
New Age Steppers,
Lower 48,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mandrill,
Carl Craig,
Albert Ayler,
Lindisfarne,
The Modern Lovers,
Minny Pops,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Human League,
Hasil Adkins,
Skaos,
Unwound,
The Toasters,
The Invisible,
Scott Walker,
The Neon Judgement,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.