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 Colombia and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Nick Fraelich to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Manfred Mann's Earth Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Quadrant,
Negative Approach,
Japan,
Pulsallama,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Youth Brigade,
Mo-Dettes,
Slick Rick,
Bizarre Inc.,
Supertramp,
Fad Gadget,
Fatback Band,
June of 44,
Moebius,
The Associates,
Public Enemy,
Television Personalities,
the Soft Cell,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
ABBA,
Deepchord,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Sällskapet,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joensuu 1685,
Glenn Branca,
H. Thieme,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jeff Lynne,
Schoolly D,
The Fall,
Parry Music,
Q65,
Bang On A Can,
Cluster,
Black Sheep,
Barclay James Harvest,
Brothers Johnson,
Amazonics,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sixth Finger,
Danielle Patucci,
Lakeside,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DJ Style,
Dual Sessions,
Suicide,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
UT,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sandy B,
Flamin' Groovies,
Robert Görl,
Roger Hodgson,
Cheater Slicks,
Tropical Tobacco,
Alton Ellis,
Dave Gahan,
Eve St. Jones,
Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne, Matthew Bourne.
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.