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 Portugal and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 marimba 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 Silicon Teens 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Throbbing Gristle,
Sun City Girls,
Brass Construction,
Delon & Dalcan,
Funky Four + One,
Fatback Band,
Radio Birdman,
Michelle Simonal,
Underground Resistance,
Alphaville,
Leonard Cohen,
Crooked Eye,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Eddi Front,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Brand Nubian,
D'Angelo,
Duran Duran,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Nick Fraelich,
Half Japanese,
Livin' Joy,
Urselle,
Black Flag,
Q and Not U,
Susan Cadogan,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pagans,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Peter & Gordon,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Skarface,
Silicon Teens,
Ultra Naté,
The Fugs,
Pierre Henry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Gun Club,
X-102,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Procol Harum,
Junior Murvin,
Quantec,
Eli Mardock,
Eurythmics,
Yusef Lateef,
Can,
Lungfish,
Simply Red,
Circle Jerks,
Barbara Tucker,
Jerry's Kids,
The Electric Prunes,
Freddie Wadling,
Barrington Levy,
Crispian St. Peters,
MC5,
Banda Bassotti,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.