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 Guyana and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum 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 Groovy Waters to the crunk 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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-101 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
Sight & Sound,
the Human League,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nation of Ulysses,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Roy Ayers,
Ten City,
Royal Trux,
Fad Gadget,
La Düsseldorf,
Fear,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Man Parrish,
Robert Wyatt,
Scratch Acid,
Camouflage,
Carl Craig,
The Victims,
Country Teasers,
Joe Finger,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Liliput,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sex Pistols,
Average White Band,
Sam Rivers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
JFA,
Y Pants,
Spoonie Gee,
Sun Ra,
Bobby Womack,
The Busters,
Joensuu 1685,
The Human League,
Hoover,
Warren Ellis,
The Modern Lovers,
The Fire Engines,
Colin Newman,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Minutemen,
The Skatalites,
The Smoke,
Dead Boys,
Rod Modell,
Frankie Knuckles,
FM Einheit,
Alison Limerick,
Warsaw,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ultravox,
Zapp,
Sarah Menescal,
Aaron Thompson,
Jacques Brel,
Wally Richardson,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.