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 Italy and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 grime 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 Barry Ungar. All the underground hits.
All Japan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 48th St. Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aural Exciters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Minor Threat,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Agitation Free,
The Mojo Men,
The Invisible,
Nirvana,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mantronix,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Beau Brummels,
Index,
World's Most,
Stiv Bators,
The J.B.'s,
Zapp,
The Happenings,
Maurizio,
The Slackers,
Goldenarms,
Nation of Ulysses,
JFA,
Pierre Henry,
Yellowson,
The Gladiators,
Symarip,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Deadbeat,
Blancmange,
Accadde A,
Cameo,
H. Thieme,
Rekid,
Crispy Ambulance,
New Order,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Derrick Morgan,
Peter & Gordon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Kas Product,
Fugazi,
Kurtis Blow,
Black Flag,
Skaos,
The Real Kids,
The Neon Judgement,
Kevin Saunderson,
X-102,
The Durutti Column,
The Moleskins,
The Standells,
Tomorrow,
Model 500,
Byron Stingily,
Joe Smooth,
The Gap Band,
The Divine Comedy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Graham Central Station,
Aswad,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mad Mike,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.