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 Indonesia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the grime 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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yaz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
The Moleskins,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sugar Minott,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lebanon Hanover,
Tommy Roe,
Joy Division,
Ohio Players,
Depeche Mode,
Rites of Spring,
Outsiders,
The Motions,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Victims,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tomorrow,
Nas,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sarah Menescal,
AZ,
Aloha Tigers,
Scrapy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gang Gang Dance,
Soft Cell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Stetsasonic,
Rekid,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Radiopuhelimet,
Crime,
Aural Exciters,
Derrick Morgan,
Magma,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Buzzcocks,
Spandau Ballet,
Procol Harum,
The Human League,
Sex Pistols,
The Neon Judgement,
David Axelrod,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sonic Youth,
Michelle Simonal,
The Last Poets,
Erasure,
Pierre Henry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
MC5,
Susan Cadogan,
Patti Smith,
the Germs,
Sam Rivers,
Ultra Naté,
The Sonics,
World's Most,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.