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 Mexico and from Madrid.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Stockholm.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Men They Couldn't Hang. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fugazi record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scientists,
Minor Threat,
Oneida,
Bill Wells,
David Axelrod,
Cheater Slicks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Chris & Cosey,
Janne Schatter,
DJ Style,
The Blues Magoos,
Accadde A,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gregory Isaacs,
Big Daddy Kane,
Negative Approach,
New Order,
Cameo,
Glenn Branca,
The Young Rascals,
Alice Coltrane,
Bobby Byrd,
Hardrive,
Dark Day,
Metal Thangz,
Mission of Burma,
Brothers Johnson,
10cc,
Heaven 17,
Model 500,
Barclay James Harvest,
Quadrant,
Grey Daturas,
Organ,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Doors,
Erykah Badu,
Kaleidoscope,
The Raincoats,
Q and Not U,
Amon Düül II,
Mandrill,
the Association,
David Bowie,
Byron Stingily,
the Bar-Kays,
Connie Case,
Funky Four + One,
Eli Mardock,
Malaria!,
Angry Samoans,
The Leaves,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Thompson Twins,
T.S.O.L.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.