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 Liechtenstein and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Portland.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Liliput to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maurizio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Y Pants,
Scion,
Qualms,
Surgeon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
H. Thieme,
New Order,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
China Crisis,
Marcia Griffiths,
Kas Product,
Spoonie Gee,
Main Source,
Hot Snakes,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Matthew Halsall,
World's Most,
Youth Brigade,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Leonard Cohen,
Henry Cow,
Deadbeat,
Silicon Teens,
Moss Icon,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lower 48,
Delta 5,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camberwell Now,
Audionom,
Cheater Slicks,
Mandrill,
Dennis Brown,
Connie Case,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Duran Duran,
Faust,
The Moleskins,
The Moody Blues,
Radiohead,
Cecil Taylor,
The Kinks,
The Evens,
Eric B and Rakim,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
OOIOO,
Barbara Tucker,
The Blackbyrds,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
X-101,
Franke,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
Moby Grape,
Ten City,
Aural Exciters,
Yaz,
The Divine Comedy,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.