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 Cyprus and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Kerrie Biddell to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
One Last Wish,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fela Kuti,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nik Kershaw,
Kool Moe Dee,
Joy Division,
Sight & Sound,
Skarface,
Procol Harum,
Radiopuhelimet,
8 Eyed Spy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Scan 7,
Drive Like Jehu,
Amon Düül II,
Neil Young,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bizarre Inc.,
Flipper,
L. Decosne,
Terry Callier,
The Techniques,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Scion,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
the Human League,
Inner City,
Q and Not U,
June Days,
The Residents,
Soulsonic Force,
The Raincoats,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Urselle,
Gastr Del Sol,
Joyce Sims,
Eli Mardock,
Robert Wyatt,
Blancmange,
Swans,
A Certain Ratio,
Scratch Acid,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Josef K,
James White and The Blacks,
Stereo Dub,
Throbbing Gristle,
Royal Trux,
The Dirtbombs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Main Source,
Glenn Branca,
Crooked Eye,
Jeru the Damaja,
Essential Logic,
Mars,
Crispy Ambulance,
Warren Ellis,
Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp, Supertramp.
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.