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 Moldova and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe 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 Subhumans to the jazz 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 K-Klass. All the underground hits.
All Pantaleimon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Maleditus Sound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ponytail,
Connie Case,
Crooked Eye,
Intrusion,
Ronan,
Howard Jones,
Rapeman,
Jeff Lynne,
Barrington Levy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dennis Brown,
L. Decosne,
Lyres,
The United States of America,
The Zeros,
The Detroit Cobras,
Aswad,
Kenny Larkin,
The Neon Judgement,
Oneida,
Malaria!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Das Ding,
Black Pus,
The Golliwogs,
Surgeon,
Thompson Twins,
Bobby Sherman,
The Sisters of Mercy,
H. Thieme,
The Fall,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Interpol,
Radiohead,
K-Klass,
Reagan Youth,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dead Boys,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Technova,
Cheater Slicks,
Quantec,
KRS-One,
Avey Tare,
Index,
Alphaville,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Joey Negro,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ituana,
Joy Division,
The Moleskins,
Letta Mbulu,
Vladislav Delay,
Ornette Coleman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Icehouse,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.