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 Laos and from Mumbai.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Mr. Review to the crunk 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Black Pus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moss Icon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
The Sound,
Dark Day,
Essential Logic,
Henry Cow,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Mantronix,
Suicide,
Ultravox,
Soulsonic Force,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Young Marble Giants,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Litter,
Black Moon,
Sixth Finger,
Donny Hathaway,
The Martian,
Crispian St. Peters,
Trumans Water,
Pulsallama,
Gastr Del Sol,
E-Dancer,
Frankie Knuckles,
Brand Nubian,
The Angels of Light,
Warren Ellis,
the Swans,
The Evens,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Motorama,
Mandrill,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crooked Eye,
Eric Dolphy,
Sonic Youth,
MDC,
Hasil Adkins,
Ultra Naté,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T.S.O.L.,
Gabor Szabo,
The Standells,
Skarface,
Fort Wilson Riot,
ABC,
Sam Rivers,
Boredoms,
Livin' Joy,
Pharoah Sanders,
One Last Wish,
Wolf Eyes,
Zero Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Interpol,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane.
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.