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 the UAE and from Bremen.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Black Flag. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Gichy Dan,
Mantronix,
Josef K,
Stetsasonic,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Jacob Miller,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Gun Club,
Skriet,
Chris & Cosey,
Cybotron,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Association,
Angry Samoans,
Camberwell Now,
Masters at Work,
Blake Baxter,
This Heat,
Johnny Osbourne,
Lalo Schifrin,
Andrew Hill,
Cameo,
Nirvana,
The Index,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Guru Guru,
Eden Ahbez,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pole,
Au Pairs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scratch Acid,
Sight & Sound,
Jawbox,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Saints,
Organ,
The Litter,
Charles Mingus,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Young Rascals,
New Age Steppers,
Roxy Music,
Laurel Aitken,
Fela Kuti,
Pulsallama,
The Electric Prunes,
Smog,
T.S.O.L.,
Man Eating Sloth,
Mr. Review,
ABBA,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jacques Brel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Von Mondo,
D'Angelo,
Inner City,
Lindisfarne,
Q65,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.