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 Andorra and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 mellotron 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 Von Mondo to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heaven 17 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MDC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Barclay James Harvest,
Peter & Gordon,
Ituana,
Michelle Simonal,
The Count Five,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Techniques,
Stiv Bators,
CMW,
Wire,
Al Stewart,
Nico,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Todd Terry,
Ultimate Spinach,
Black Bananas,
The Human League,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
10cc,
The Invisible,
Scrapy,
The Blackbyrds,
Bauhaus,
Nirvana,
Excepter,
Aaron Thompson,
Iggy Pop,
Kayak,
Minnie Riperton,
Marcia Griffiths,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Fluxion,
Newcleus,
Swans,
Black Sheep,
The Offenders,
K-Klass,
The Velvet Underground,
Ronnie Foster,
The Buckinghams,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rapeman,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Motorama,
James White and The Blacks,
John Holt,
FM Einheit,
Joyce Sims,
Public Enemy,
Unwound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Suburban Knight,
Niagra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Ultra Naté,
Jeff Mills,
Massinfluence,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Delta 5,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.