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 Korea South and from Cairo.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 China Crisis to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Ice-T,
The New Christs,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Human League,
Man Eating Sloth,
David Axelrod,
Ossler,
The Gladiators,
Can,
T.S.O.L.,
The Fire Engines,
Pere Ubu,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lalo Schifrin,
Suicide,
Black Sheep,
Funkadelic,
The Birthday Party,
The Stooges,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masters at Work,
China Crisis,
Brass Construction,
Gong,
Dennis Brown,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camberwell Now,
Basic Channel,
The Beau Brummels,
Make Up,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Blackbyrds,
La Düsseldorf,
Country Teasers,
Gang Green,
Public Enemy,
The Black Dice,
Gichy Dan,
Jeru the Damaja,
Radiopuhelimet,
Deadbeat,
EPMD,
Fela Kuti,
L. Decosne,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sugar Minott,
The Move,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Young Rascals,
The Wake,
Pussy Galore,
Faust,
The Monochrome Set,
David Bowie,
Oblivians,
Soft Cell,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Music Machine,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Derrick May,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.