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 Kuwait and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 New York 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 Mars to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kinks. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Bourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Judy Mowatt,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Coltrane,
Can,
Niagra,
Sam Rivers,
The Martian,
Nirvana,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camouflage,
Ten City,
Gang of Four,
Parry Music,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
kango's stein massive,
Arthur Verocai,
Todd Terry,
The Searchers,
Basic Channel,
Guru Guru,
Adolescents,
Sparks,
Al Stewart,
The Dead C,
Stockholm Monsters,
Soulsonic Force,
Warsaw,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ronan,
Terrestrial Tones,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Maurizio,
the Normal,
E-Dancer,
Silicon Teens,
the Slits,
The Sonics,
Bizarre Inc.,
Vainqueur,
Donald Byrd,
Motorama,
PIL,
Schoolly D,
Television,
Blake Baxter,
Absolute Body Control,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Scratch Acid,
The Pretty Things,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Skriet,
Maleditus Sound,
Cal Tjader,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sandy B,
Pylon,
The Names,
Agitation Free,
Bill Near,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.