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 South Sudan and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiopuhelimet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
X-102,
Derrick Morgan,
Sandy B,
Outsiders,
Silicon Teens,
Lungfish,
Gang Green,
Faraquet,
Lightning Bolt,
Nation of Ulysses,
Animal Collective,
Suicide,
Ossler,
Tres Demented,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Swans,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Parry Music,
Howard Jones,
Desert Stars,
Minnie Riperton,
The Black Dice,
Letta Mbulu,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Slits,
Ponytail,
The Trojans,
New Age Steppers,
Alice Coltrane,
Davy DMX,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Echospace,
Trumans Water,
Metal Thangz,
Gang of Four,
New Order,
Jacques Brel,
E-Dancer,
John Cale,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cheater Slicks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Terry Callier,
Swell Maps,
The Cramps,
B.T. Express,
Thee Headcoats,
The Skatalites,
Eli Mardock,
Moebius,
The Mojo Men,
Fad Gadget,
Black Sheep,
Marc Almond,
Todd Terry,
Scrapy,
Ice-T,
Index,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.