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 Germany and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 theremin 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 The Skatalites to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cymande,
Slick Rick,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Star Department,
Brick,
Basic Channel,
Skarface,
Sun Ra,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Au Pairs,
The Fortunes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Shoche,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ken Boothe,
Steve Hackett,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Motorama,
Brothers Johnson,
Negative Approach,
Quando Quango,
The Standells,
Alice Coltrane,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Little Man,
Wings,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Saccharine Trust,
Ituana,
John Lydon,
Hoover,
Pagans,
Lalann,
Traffic Nightmare,
Barry Ungar,
Tres Demented,
Curtis Mayfield,
Funkadelic,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marine Girls,
The Cowsills,
Harpers Bizarre,
Theoretical Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Stetsasonic,
Oblivians,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fatback Band,
Warsaw,
Black Flag,
Marmalade,
Pere Ubu,
Avey Tare,
Dawn Penn,
The Mojo Men,
The Music Machine,
Siglo XX,
Aural Exciters,
The Monochrome Set,
DJ Style,
Laurel Aitken,
Black Bananas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.