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 Tunisia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Michael McDonald 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 Cheater Slicks to the grunge 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 Kerrie Biddell. All the underground hits.
All Sex Pistols tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pet Shop Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Max Romeo,
the Bar-Kays,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sister Nancy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Move,
Zero Boys,
Gang of Four,
The Shadows of Knight,
Arcadia,
Gichy Dan,
Yazoo,
OOIOO,
Television Personalities,
Al Stewart,
The Doors,
Harpers Bizarre,
Shuggie Otis,
Marine Girls,
Desert Stars,
Todd Terry,
Rakim,
Buzzcocks,
Cheater Slicks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Roxette,
Bad Manners,
Barbara Tucker,
Pharoah Sanders,
Main Source,
Television,
Nirvana,
Robert Hood,
Sarah Menescal,
Marmalade,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Agent Orange,
Eden Ahbez,
Essential Logic,
Peter & Gordon,
The Litter,
Panda Bear,
10cc,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kevin Saunderson,
Radiohead,
The Mummies,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pylon,
Los Fastidios,
John Coltrane,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Wings,
The Gap Band,
Warsaw,
Drexciya,
Fluxion,
Idris Muhammad,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.