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 Colombia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Aural Exciters to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Hill record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-Ray Spex,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Flamin' Groovies,
Arab on Radar,
Oneida,
Swans,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dave Gahan,
Scan 7,
The Fortunes,
The Music Machine,
Robert Görl,
Quando Quango,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Fire Engines,
The Stooges,
OOIOO,
The Fuzztones,
The Pretty Things,
The Monks,
Sound Behaviour,
Monks,
Funkadelic,
Danielle Patucci,
Arthur Verocai,
Vainqueur,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Fela Kuti,
The Last Poets,
Blossom Toes,
Amon Düül II,
Agent Orange,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Aswad,
ABBA,
Dennis Brown,
Eden Ahbez,
Lightning Bolt,
Janne Schatter,
The Fall,
Grandmaster Flash,
Isaac Hayes,
the Swans,
Lou Reed,
Main Source,
The Angels of Light,
Carl Craig,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q65,
The Remains,
Moss Icon,
Don Cherry,
The Star Department,
Television Personalities,
The Electric Prunes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Piero Umiliani,
The Victims,
Juan Atkins,
Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins, Thompson Twins.
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.