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 Somalia and from Salvador.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Banda Bassotti tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Danielle Patucci record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Jawbox,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Faust,
Half Japanese,
The Remains,
Fad Gadget,
Gerry Rafferty,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Roy Ayers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kayak,
Technova,
Crooked Eye,
The Moleskins,
Black Pus,
Country Teasers,
New York Dolls,
Minor Threat,
Pere Ubu,
Audionom,
Altered Images,
Television Personalities,
Soft Machine,
Outsiders,
John Coltrane,
Public Image Ltd.,
Janne Schatter,
Tommy Roe,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Human League,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
FM Einheit,
Mark Hollis,
Prince Buster,
Lightning Bolt,
Animal Collective,
Supertramp,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
One Last Wish,
K-Klass,
Eli Mardock,
The Zeros,
Ten City,
Danielle Patucci,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Unwound,
The Searchers,
Metal Thangz,
Nick Fraelich,
Deepchord,
Easy Going,
Roxette,
Mars,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Iggy Pop,
John Holt,
Motorama,
Fela Kuti,
Scratch Acid,
Anthony Braxton,
Alison Limerick,
June of 44,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Cale, John Cale, John Cale, John Cale.
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.