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 Qatar and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 harpsichord 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 Easy Going to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Bob Dylan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a World's Most record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Angels of Light,
Soulsonic Force,
UT,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Techniques,
The Fall,
DJ Sneak,
Wasted Youth,
Juan Atkins,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Red Krayola,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
James Chance & The Contortions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Colin Newman,
Delta 5,
Scratch Acid,
The Associates,
The Birthday Party,
The Index,
The Offenders,
The Count Five,
Bizarre Inc.,
Marvin Gaye,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Zeros,
Lungfish,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lee Hazlewood,
Eurythmics,
The Smoke,
New Age Steppers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Anakelly,
Heaven 17,
The Electric Prunes,
Throbbing Gristle,
Smog,
Television Personalities,
Bronski Beat,
Fad Gadget,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Newcleus,
Iggy Pop,
Joe Finger,
Von Mondo,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Gun Club,
Pulsallama,
Cybotron,
Wally Richardson,
Pagans,
Niagra,
Pharoah Sanders,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lalann,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Human League,
Oneida,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.