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 Russia and from Beijing.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Heavy D & The Boyz. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu 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 güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oppenheimer Analysis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dark Day,
Jimmy McGriff,
Moss Icon,
CMW,
Yusef Lateef,
Barclay James Harvest,
Soulsonic Force,
Joe Smooth,
The Misunderstood,
Schoolly D,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Anakelly,
Guru Guru,
The Divine Comedy,
Donny Hathaway,
Negative Approach,
Metal Thangz,
Flamin' Groovies,
Girls At Our Best!,
Byron Stingily,
Eli Mardock,
Liliput,
Grauzone,
Babytalk,
Todd Rundgren,
The Beau Brummels,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Index,
The Cure,
Cymande,
Jacob Miller,
Skriet,
Infiniti,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Yaz,
Kaleidoscope,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Cowsills,
Hoover,
James White and The Blacks,
a-ha,
Magma,
Archie Shepp,
the Association,
Monolake,
The Sound,
Arab on Radar,
Michelle Simonal,
Joyce Sims,
June of 44,
Tres Demented,
Neu!,
Minor Threat,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Slave,
Amon Düül II,
Nick Fraelich,
Jesper Dahlback,
PIL,
The Five Americans,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.