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 Lithuania and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 theremin 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 Maurizio to the techno 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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Rhythim Is Rhythim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rosa Yemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
The Tremeloes,
Reuben Wilson,
Rotary Connection,
the Normal,
Bootsy Collins,
Bang On A Can,
Flash Fearless,
Circle Jerks,
The Victims,
The Pop Group,
Television Personalities,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bob Dylan,
Aswad,
Smog,
Joyce Sims,
Cybotron,
Ken Boothe,
The Stooges,
Slave,
John Foxx,
Faust,
Frankie Knuckles,
Quadrant,
Camouflage,
Spandau Ballet,
Aloha Tigers,
Harmonia,
Boz Scaggs,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Remains,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
John Lydon,
Peter and Kerry,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Flesh Eaters,
Moebius,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Glambeats Corp.,
Public Image Ltd.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Girls At Our Best!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Flamin' Groovies,
Shuggie Otis,
The Gap Band,
Wire,
Model 500,
Marc Almond,
Cluster,
Tomorrow,
Kurtis Blow,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Slits,
The Blackbyrds,
Sexual Harrassment,
Black Sheep,
Malaria!,
Connie Case,
Sun Ra,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.