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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 UT to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blackbyrds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Chris Corsano,
The Fuzztones,
Main Source,
Throbbing Gristle,
Eden Ahbez,
Tubeway Army,
Quando Quango,
Peter and Kerry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Public Enemy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lou Reed,
B.T. Express,
Rhythm & Sound,
Television,
Alice Coltrane,
Bluetip,
Supertramp,
Franke,
Circle Jerks,
the Swans,
Roger Hodgson,
Absolute Body Control,
Eric Copeland,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gang Green,
Bob Dylan,
Cluster,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sam Rivers,
Metal Thangz,
Curtis Mayfield,
Matthew Halsall,
Robert Hood,
John Foxx,
Todd Terry,
Blancmange,
Clear Light,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Flash Fearless,
Vladislav Delay,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Shoche,
The Leaves,
Avey Tare,
Agent Orange,
The Standells,
The Toasters,
The American Breed,
The Kinks,
Eurythmics,
Grandmaster Flash,
LL Cool J,
Nation of Ulysses,
Aaron Thompson,
The Blues Magoos,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.