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 Andorra and from Spokane.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Move. All the underground hits.
All Arab on Radar tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Arcadia,
Avey Tare,
Section 25,
Boogie Down Productions,
Alton Ellis,
Pierre Henry,
The Kinks,
Sun City Girls,
Technova,
The Angels of Light,
Nas,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Jeff Mills,
Funky Four + One,
Johnny Osbourne,
Blancmange,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ponytail,
the Soft Cell,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Harmonia,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lyres,
John Cale,
Suicide,
Heaven 17,
Shuggie Otis,
New Age Steppers,
Lou Reed,
The Fire Engines,
Erasure,
the Human League,
Banda Bassotti,
Easy Going,
Crispy Ambulance,
Man Parrish,
The Neon Judgement,
Basic Channel,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jacob Miller,
Echospace,
Kenny Larkin,
Sam Rivers,
Make Up,
Parry Music,
The Residents,
Wally Richardson,
MDC,
Bob Dylan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mad Mike,
Organ,
Tommy Roe,
Flipper,
Fat Boys,
Groovy Waters,
The Busters,
Chrome,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.