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 Angola and from Bremen.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Houston.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Underground Resistance to the rap 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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Little Man record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
New Age Steppers,
Radiohead,
Letta Mbulu,
Hashim,
A Certain Ratio,
Idris Muhammad,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fad Gadget,
The Pop Group,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Detroit Cobras,
B.T. Express,
Silicon Teens,
The Raincoats,
DJ Sneak,
Black Bananas,
Toni Rubio,
The Buckinghams,
Yellowson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
James White and The Blacks,
The Tremeloes,
Black Pus,
Colin Newman,
John Foxx,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Blackbyrds,
Gang Green,
Marc Almond,
John Lydon,
Roy Ayers,
Brand Nubian,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultravox,
Connie Case,
Siglo XX,
One Last Wish,
Electric Prunes,
Sun Ra,
The Wake,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Remains,
Deadbeat,
T. Rex,
The Evens,
Bush Tetras,
Boz Scaggs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Wally Richardson,
Judy Mowatt,
Franke,
Tom Boy,
Wings,
Aloha Tigers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Matthew Halsall,
Trumans Water,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
These Immortal Souls,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.