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 Tajikistan and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Lou Reed 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 Carl Craig to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aloha Tigers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rapeman,
Wings,
Alison Limerick,
Section 25,
Peter & Gordon,
Derrick Morgan,
Funkadelic,
The Divine Comedy,
Cybotron,
Rakim,
The Techniques,
Tommy Roe,
Bush Tetras,
Faraquet,
Thompson Twins,
Fatback Band,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Kenny Larkin,
The Seeds,
The Index,
New Age Steppers,
Mission of Burma,
Slave,
Schoolly D,
The Associates,
Swans,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ituana,
Television,
World's Most,
Youth Brigade,
L. Decosne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Khruangbin,
Index,
EPMD,
Tropical Tobacco,
Television Personalities,
the Normal,
Susan Cadogan,
Bizarre Inc.,
Black Flag,
LL Cool J,
Boz Scaggs,
Fluxion,
Andrew Hill,
Kool Moe Dee,
Underground Resistance,
Soft Machine,
Nils Olav,
Bill Wells,
The Tremeloes,
The Sound,
K-Klass,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Glenn Branca,
Scrapy,
China Crisis,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.