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 Sudan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 LL Cool J to the crunk 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 Sexual Harrassment. All the underground hits.
All The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Desert Stars,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Yusef Lateef,
The Associates,
Make Up,
Brothers Johnson,
Barbara Tucker,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pagans,
Kas Product,
Second Layer,
Q and Not U,
Bad Manners,
Unrelated Segments,
Buzzcocks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sight & Sound,
Warsaw,
Piero Umiliani,
Jandek,
Spoonie Gee,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bill Near,
John Foxx,
Mandrill,
Section 25,
The Grass Roots,
Reuben Wilson,
Carl Craig,
Nas,
Crime,
Aural Exciters,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Rufus Thomas,
Fugazi,
Jimmy McGriff,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Aswad,
The Fire Engines,
John Lydon,
Todd Rundgren,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ultra Naté,
Pulsallama,
Skaos,
Eddi Front,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Swans,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gregory Isaacs,
Gichy Dan,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nirvana,
Babytalk,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.