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 Barbados and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 cv313 to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-102,
Talk Talk,
Joyce Sims,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Robert Wyatt,
The J.B.'s,
Rosa Yemen,
Sällskapet,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kas Product,
JFA,
Camberwell Now,
The American Breed,
Bobby Byrd,
Mantronix,
F. McDonald,
Trumans Water,
EPMD,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dawn Penn,
Symarip,
ABBA,
Alton Ellis,
Fugazi,
Ultravox,
Pierre Henry,
Animal Collective,
R.M.O.,
Jandek,
Newcleus,
Ice-T,
Warsaw,
Juan Atkins,
Wolf Eyes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Barrington Levy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Loose Ends,
Black Sheep,
Tomorrow,
Inner City,
Television,
Sun Ra,
LL Cool J,
Todd Rundgren,
The Martian,
Yellowson,
Lyres,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sound Behaviour,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Don Cherry,
Jacob Miller,
Outsiders,
The Vogues,
T.S.O.L.,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.