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 Azerbaijan and from Columbus.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 arpeggiator 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 Arab on Radar to the funk 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 Ken Boothe. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?
Soulsonic Force,
The Count Five,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gang of Four,
Rotary Connection,
Roxy Music,
Yusef Lateef,
Guru Guru,
Maleditus Sound,
Alison Limerick,
Das Ding,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ralphi Rosario,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Cecil Taylor,
Sparks,
Robert Görl,
Blake Baxter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Pretty Things,
Lou Reed,
The Dave Clark Five,
Skarface,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Crash Course in Science,
Accadde A,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
L. Decosne,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Chris Corsano,
Danielle Patucci,
The Durutti Column,
The Divine Comedy,
Delon & Dalcan,
June of 44,
The Martian,
Tommy Roe,
Rites of Spring,
Thompson Twins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sarah Menescal,
Leonard Cohen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Motions,
The Cramps,
Goldenarms,
Basic Channel,
Ohio Players,
Buzzcocks,
The Sonics,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Robert Wyatt,
Second Layer,
The Raincoats,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.