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 Nicaragua and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Holger Czukay 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 Motorama to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection 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 chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mr. Review,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Görl,
Todd Terry,
Pierre Henry,
Roy Ayers,
Grey Daturas,
Popol Vuh,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Zeros,
Dawn Penn,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Saccharine Trust,
Dual Sessions,
Moss Icon,
The Dead C,
Echospace,
Aloha Tigers,
Sound Behaviour,
Fear,
Charles Mingus,
X-101,
Drive Like Jehu,
Alice Coltrane,
Josef K,
Duran Duran,
Soulsonic Force,
La Düsseldorf,
the Slits,
Talk Talk,
The Moody Blues,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ponytail,
Blake Baxter,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Glenn Branca,
Qualms,
Joe Smooth,
Jeff Lynne,
The Red Krayola,
Bobby Womack,
Rekid,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Litter,
The Evens,
Funkadelic,
Ice-T,
Cal Tjader,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
John Cale,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
JFA,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Flag,
Marine Girls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Cameo,
The Tremeloes,
Vladislav Delay,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.