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 Malta and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer 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 Harmonia to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lakeside tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
H. Thieme,
The Gories,
Scott Walker,
The Invisible,
The Blackbyrds,
Rakim,
Barry Ungar,
The Associates,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dual Sessions,
New Age Steppers,
The Wake,
Marine Girls,
Swans,
Crime,
Scan 7,
Piero Umiliani,
Hot Snakes,
Cymande,
Arab on Radar,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Swans,
Eurythmics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Leaves,
Average White Band,
The Gladiators,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Patti Smith,
The Toasters,
Television Personalities,
Stiv Bators,
Infiniti,
Deepchord,
Essential Logic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Siglo XX,
Half Japanese,
Slave,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Don Cherry,
Bootsy Collins,
Ponytail,
Kaleidoscope,
Alice Coltrane,
The Black Dice,
Drive Like Jehu,
Throbbing Gristle,
Circle Jerks,
The Pop Group,
Kevin Saunderson,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Audionom,
Rapeman,
The Happenings,
48th St. Collective,
Jawbox,
The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills, The Cowsills.
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.