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 Israel and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 The Pop Group to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All The J.B.'s tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantytec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
New Age Steppers,
JFA,
Scientists,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Isaac Hayes,
Robert Görl,
Aswad,
Funky Four + One,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Soft Cell,
FM Einheit,
Von Mondo,
Bluetip,
Todd Rundgren,
8 Eyed Spy,
Toni Rubio,
The Alarm Clocks,
Deakin,
Quando Quango,
Man Eating Sloth,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Remains,
PIL,
Sandy B,
The Pretty Things,
Derrick May,
Pagans,
The Busters,
Banda Bassotti,
The Doobie Brothers,
Stockholm Monsters,
48th St. Collective,
Neu!,
LL Cool J,
The Residents,
Desert Stars,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Martian,
Don Cherry,
OOIOO,
The Searchers,
Pussy Galore,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mandrill,
Minutemen,
The Vogues,
kango's stein massive,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Toasters,
Section 25,
Jandek,
Archie Shepp,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Simply Red,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Negative Approach,
The Stooges,
D'Angelo,
Colin Newman,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.