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 Slovakia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Pylon to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Names record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Liliput,
The Young Rascals,
Sparks,
Eden Ahbez,
The Leaves,
KRS-One,
Pantytec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Knickerbockers,
Derrick May,
Warren Ellis,
Marmalade,
Radiohead,
Lower 48,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Electric Prunes,
The Golliwogs,
Infiniti,
Flash Fearless,
Average White Band,
Marshall Jefferson,
Todd Terry,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sexual Harrassment,
Dennis Brown,
MDC,
Unwound,
Peter and Kerry,
The Pretty Things,
Al Stewart,
Carl Craig,
Magma,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
The Electric Prunes,
Half Japanese,
The Buckinghams,
The Durutti Column,
Jacques Brel,
Supertramp,
Surgeon,
Ossler,
Deadbeat,
Spandau Ballet,
Q and Not U,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Dirtbombs,
The Remains,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Morten Harket,
Eve St. Jones,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Vladislav Delay,
Sam Rivers,
Drexciya,
The Real Kids,
Aloha Tigers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad 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.