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 Argentina and from Tehran.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk 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 Nirvana. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Rites of Spring,
Schoolly D,
Sällskapet,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Iggy Pop,
Eurythmics,
The Slits,
Franke,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Joe Smooth,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hot Snakes,
Nils Olav,
Duran Duran,
The American Breed,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Buzzcocks,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lower 48,
Bootsy Collins,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Peter & Gordon,
Unwound,
Scion,
Gabor Szabo,
Gang of Four,
Kenny Larkin,
Silicon Teens,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kurtis Blow,
The Black Dice,
Country Teasers,
New York Dolls,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Main Source,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Audionom,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Whodini,
MDC,
Nick Fraelich,
Michelle Simonal,
Siglo XX,
MC5,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Panda Bear,
Matthew Bourne,
The Music Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Brand Nubian,
Chris & Cosey,
Mandrill,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.