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 Botswana and from Sao Paulo.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Delon & Dalcan to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cosmic Jokers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
Sällskapet,
Procol Harum,
Scan 7,
Susan Cadogan,
The Evens,
The Seeds,
Minnie Riperton,
Fat Boys,
Arthur Verocai,
Lakeside,
The Monochrome Set,
Sixth Finger,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Beau Brummels,
Pet Shop Boys,
Echospace,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sun City Girls,
Quando Quango,
The Tremeloes,
The Golliwogs,
the Normal,
Bush Tetras,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Smiths,
Moss Icon,
the Association,
Franke,
Goldenarms,
Sandy B,
The Selecter,
Amon Düül,
Amon Düül II,
X-102,
a-ha,
Tres Demented,
Joy Division,
Hardrive,
Kurtis Blow,
Anakelly,
Dennis Brown,
Black Moon,
Fela Kuti,
Shoche,
John Coltrane,
The Detroit Cobras,
The New Christs,
Jandek,
Arcadia,
The Birthday Party,
Minutemen,
Trumans Water,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Grey Daturas,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pere Ubu,
Inner City,
Saccharine Trust,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.