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 Hungary and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Echo & the Bunnymen. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
The Happenings,
Bill Wells,
Andrew Hill,
The Pretty Things,
Lakeside,
Hashim,
Suburban Knight,
Ronan,
Ultra Naté,
Kas Product,
Joensuu 1685,
Unwound,
Second Layer,
Skarface,
Crime,
Robert Görl,
Tom Boy,
Ponytail,
Letta Mbulu,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lyres,
Kayak,
Cymande,
Rapeman,
Grandmaster Flash,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
cv313,
Anakelly,
Motorama,
Rites of Spring,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
John Coltrane,
the Germs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
MDC,
Maleditus Sound,
Funky Four + One,
Skaos,
Ornette Coleman,
Kurtis Blow,
The Young Rascals,
Siglo XX,
Basic Channel,
Chrome,
Goldenarms,
The Names,
Bang On A Can,
David McCallum,
Todd Rundgren,
Underground Resistance,
Minnie Riperton,
K-Klass,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun Ra,
the Normal,
The Blues Magoos,
New Order,
Tres Demented,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
the Swans, the Swans, the Swans, the Swans.
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.