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 India and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
The Golliwogs,
Morten Harket,
David Axelrod,
Spandau Ballet,
Khruangbin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Gichy Dan,
The Flesh Eaters,
Skaos,
Icehouse,
Negative Approach,
The Remains,
the Slits,
Graham Central Station,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Guru Guru,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Pretty Things,
Outsiders,
Curtis Mayfield,
Grauzone,
Los Fastidios,
Freddie Wadling,
Monks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
New York Dolls,
Brand Nubian,
Simply Red,
Colin Newman,
Tim Buckley,
Procol Harum,
Arthur Verocai,
Con Funk Shun,
Marine Girls,
Kenny Larkin,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sexual Harrassment,
Scott Walker,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Avey Tare,
Matthew Halsall,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Derrick Morgan,
The Fortunes,
Howard Jones,
kango's stein massive,
ABC,
PIL,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Visage,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
R.M.O.,
DJ Sneak,
Duran Duran,
The Names,
Reagan Youth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.