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 Qatar and from Accra.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 theremin 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 The Doors to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Schoolly D. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins 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 snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gap Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Surgeon,
Wasted Youth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Visage,
Depeche Mode,
David Axelrod,
Yazoo,
The Mojo Men,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Excepter,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Motions,
Dawn Penn,
Delta 5,
Bush Tetras,
Dorothy Ashby,
Liliput,
The Dave Clark Five,
Altered Images,
The Monks,
Tommy Roe,
Gabor Szabo,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sex Pistols,
Funkadelic,
Quadrant,
Steve Hackett,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Joe Smooth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Iggy Pop,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Black Flag,
Todd Rundgren,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ponytail,
Cheater Slicks,
Thompson Twins,
The Durutti Column,
Brand Nubian,
Barbara Tucker,
Radiopuhelimet,
Hashim,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
John Cale,
Freddie Wadling,
The J.B.'s,
Infiniti,
the Slits,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Vogues,
Funky Four + One,
Angry Samoans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Amon Düül,
L. Decosne,
Ultimate Spinach,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.