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 United States and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Golliwogs to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids 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?
Unwound,
The Toasters,
Basic Channel,
Crooked Eye,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Offenders,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Animal Collective,
Terry Callier,
Lungfish,
Derrick May,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Remains,
Crash Course in Science,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Sonics,
David McCallum,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Nik Kershaw,
Steve Hackett,
the Germs,
Index,
Robert Hood,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
ABBA,
Ituana,
Eden Ahbez,
Letta Mbulu,
John Holt,
Soulsonic Force,
MC5,
Joe Finger,
The Gap Band,
Wally Richardson,
Robert Wyatt,
This Heat,
The Slits,
Johnny Clarke,
The Black Dice,
EPMD,
Don Cherry,
X-101,
Main Source,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jacob Miller,
Glenn Branca,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Birthday Party,
Youth Brigade,
One Last Wish,
The American Breed,
Hoover,
Barry Ungar,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bootsy Collins,
The Tremeloes,
The Last Poets,
Fela Kuti,
H. Thieme,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.