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 Argentina and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Rufus Thomas to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All The Wake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flamin' Groovies,
Jeru the Damaja,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Velvet Underground,
The Sonics,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Young Rascals,
Barrington Levy,
Faraquet,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kerrie Biddell,
John Foxx,
Sight & Sound,
Goldenarms,
Fatback Band,
48th St. Collective,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Juan Atkins,
Severed Heads,
Sex Pistols,
Traffic Nightmare,
Spoonie Gee,
Smog,
UT,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jandek,
The Vogues,
Groovy Waters,
Franke,
Cymande,
The Zeros,
Erasure,
The Names,
Gong,
Popol Vuh,
Barry Ungar,
Intrusion,
Donald Byrd,
The Litter,
The Black Dice,
Visage,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Charles Mingus,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Idris Muhammad,
Yazoo,
Cameo,
Judy Mowatt,
Godley & Creme,
Fat Boys,
Duran Duran,
Pere Ubu,
Bobby Womack,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scion,
Althea and Donna,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.