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 Mongolia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monks,
Bill Near,
The Detroit Cobras,
Boogie Down Productions,
Suburban Knight,
The Pretty Things,
The Wake,
Television,
John Foxx,
Sun City Girls,
Icehouse,
The Smoke,
Babytalk,
Japan,
The Seeds,
The Golliwogs,
Shoche,
Kas Product,
Mark Hollis,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Fatback Band,
The Gladiators,
Crash Course in Science,
T. Rex,
Terrestrial Tones,
Brand Nubian,
Minnie Riperton,
Blancmange,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
La Düsseldorf,
Gil Scott Heron,
Cal Tjader,
Aswad,
Joensuu 1685,
Skarface,
Howard Jones,
Kerri Chandler,
Eurythmics,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Slits,
Bluetip,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DJ Style,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lalo Schifrin,
Ultimate Spinach,
New York Dolls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oblivians,
Warren Ellis,
Drexciya,
Massinfluence,
Johnny Clarke,
Gang Green,
Eric Dolphy,
Infiniti,
The Kinks,
Q and Not U,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Chrome,
In Retrospect,
Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.
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.