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 Russia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Todd Terry to the jazz 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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Silicon Teens,
Roy Ayers,
Bobby Womack,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Chrome,
Lindisfarne,
Maleditus Sound,
Cal Tjader,
Faraquet,
Jeff Mills,
The Sonics,
Index,
Ituana,
Iggy Pop,
Cecil Taylor,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Freddie Wadling,
Cameo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
John Holt,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Roger Hodgson,
Boz Scaggs,
Gabor Szabo,
Laurel Aitken,
Lee Hazlewood,
Japan,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Terrestrial Tones,
Morten Harket,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Yazoo,
Das Ding,
Todd Terry,
Jacob Miller,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Associates,
10cc,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Adolescents,
John Foxx,
The Slackers,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Last Poets,
8 Eyed Spy,
Radiopuhelimet,
Soul Sonic Force,
Brass Construction,
Nas,
Ralphi Rosario,
T.S.O.L.,
Sam Rivers,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Toasters,
The Seeds,
Trumans Water,
Kevin Saunderson,
PIL,
Johnny Osbourne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
B.T. Express,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.