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 Israel and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Radiopuhelimet to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Count Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harmonia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young,
Derrick May,
Model 500,
OOIOO,
Little Man,
Joensuu 1685,
Sonny Sharrock,
Soul II Soul,
Janne Schatter,
The Vogues,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Five Americans,
MDC,
The Litter,
Q and Not U,
The Trojans,
Chris & Cosey,
Kaleidoscope,
Gang Starr,
David McCallum,
Derrick Morgan,
Stereo Dub,
The J.B.'s,
Rufus Thomas,
Easy Going,
Jacob Miller,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Panda Bear,
Vainqueur,
Zapp,
Anthony Braxton,
UT,
Bronski Beat,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
D'Angelo,
John Cale,
Man Parrish,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Moebius,
La Düsseldorf,
Oblivians,
Kenny Larkin,
Roxette,
Mantronix,
Pylon,
Saccharine Trust,
X-101,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric Dolphy,
Motorama,
Cheater Slicks,
The Angels of Light,
Guru Guru,
The Alarm Clocks,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
June of 44,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
In Retrospect,
The Associates,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.