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 Romania and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin 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 Curtis Mayfield to the dance 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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Wyatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Danielle Patucci,
The American Breed,
Thompson Twins,
Tres Demented,
Brand Nubian,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Doobie Brothers,
These Immortal Souls,
Prince Buster,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Leonard Cohen,
Kool Moe Dee,
Johnny Clarke,
Au Pairs,
Man Parrish,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Modern Lovers,
The Motions,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Soft Cell,
The Alarm Clocks,
Curtis Mayfield,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Black Flag,
World's Most,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gerry Rafferty,
Vainqueur,
The Tremeloes,
Avey Tare,
John Cale,
Monolake,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Connie Case,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Essential Logic,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Japan,
Soulsonic Force,
Eurythmics,
Don Cherry,
Ohio Players,
Slave,
Cheater Slicks,
Pole,
Andrew Hill,
Barclay James Harvest,
Echospace,
Suburban Knight,
Arthur Verocai,
Toni Rubio,
Outsiders,
James White and The Blacks,
The United States of America,
Sun City Girls,
Gang Gang Dance,
Donny Hathaway,
Basic Channel,
The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers, The Searchers.
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.