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 Philippines and from Shanghai.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 The Monochrome Set to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Boogie Down Productions. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy's Rubber Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
The Cowsills,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Matthew Halsall,
Don Cherry,
Aswad,
Godley & Creme,
In Retrospect,
La Düsseldorf,
Lindisfarne,
Symarip,
Archie Shepp,
Ituana,
Guru Guru,
The Gladiators,
The Velvet Underground,
Andrew Hill,
The Alarm Clocks,
Absolute Body Control,
Pierre Henry,
Dark Day,
Heaven 17,
Agent Orange,
The Human League,
Talk Talk,
The Monks,
Marc Almond,
Subhumans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
E-Dancer,
Terry Callier,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Birthday Party,
The Slits,
Groovy Waters,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Alphaville,
Freddie Wadling,
Toni Rubio,
Mark Hollis,
The Smoke,
Traffic Nightmare,
Babytalk,
The Neon Judgement,
Joe Finger,
Brick,
Alison Limerick,
Crooked Eye,
X-101,
Derrick May,
Gang Starr,
John Cale,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Doobie Brothers,
Steve Hackett,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.