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 New Zealand and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 T.S.O.L. to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Matthew Halsall,
Danielle Patucci,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Cameo,
The Techniques,
Wings,
the Sonics,
OOIOO,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Stereo Dub,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Bizarre Inc.,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nils Olav,
The Pretty Things,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Delta 5,
Gang of Four,
Suburban Knight,
Soft Cell,
Schoolly D,
Dave Gahan,
Television Personalities,
The Fuzztones,
Matthew Bourne,
Moebius,
Archie Shepp,
Big Daddy Kane,
Chris & Cosey,
The Zeros,
Todd Terry,
Soft Machine,
Von Mondo,
Aswad,
The Selecter,
Royal Trux,
Kevin Saunderson,
Robert Wyatt,
Metal Thangz,
Black Bananas,
Hoover,
Banda Bassotti,
Ohio Players,
The Young Rascals,
Robert Görl,
Tears for Fears,
Maleditus Sound,
The Slackers,
Altered Images,
Con Funk Shun,
Sonic Youth,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Animal Collective,
cv313,
Das Ding,
The Names,
The Red Krayola,
Unrelated Segments,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Subhumans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.