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 Seychelles and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bootsy Collins to the rap 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
the Swans,
Make Up,
John Foxx,
Sparks,
Monks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Rapeman,
T.S.O.L.,
This Heat,
Sonic Youth,
Jawbox,
The Fall,
Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
Underground Resistance,
Grey Daturas,
The Offenders,
The Toasters,
Fort Wilson Riot,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Half Japanese,
Duran Duran,
Arcadia,
Television Personalities,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lalann,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Technova,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Camberwell Now,
Suburban Knight,
Liliput,
48th St. Collective,
Das Ding,
Smog,
Joy Division,
Joensuu 1685,
Josef K,
John Coltrane,
Gang Green,
Television,
Alphaville,
The Golliwogs,
The Gap Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Moody Blues,
Pagans,
Second Layer,
Black Sheep,
Masters at Work,
Mo-Dettes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Absolute Body Control,
Wings,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Slits,
The Detroit Cobras,
Funkadelic,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.