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 Papua New Guinea and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Nile Rodgers 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 Lower 48 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All Wings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ituana,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Minor Threat,
Anthony Braxton,
Y Pants,
Ornette Coleman,
Half Japanese,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Golliwogs,
Ronan,
The Vogues,
Fela Kuti,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Malaria!,
Minnie Riperton,
Intrusion,
Tres Demented,
The Toasters,
Pantaleimon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Divine Comedy,
Jeff Lynne,
The Seeds,
The Young Rascals,
Connie Case,
Lucky Dragons,
Drexciya,
Sam Rivers,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Josef K,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ultravox,
Eve St. Jones,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
New Age Steppers,
Soulsonic Force,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sound Behaviour,
Moby Grape,
The Standells,
DJ Sneak,
Fatback Band,
Masters at Work,
The Cure,
Roy Ayers,
Agitation Free,
X-101,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Laurel Aitken,
Average White Band,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kayak,
Gastr Del Sol,
Yusef Lateef,
Qualms,
Cybotron,
Liliput,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.