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 Georgia and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Beijing.
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 spring reverb 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 Negative Approach to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker 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?
Kevin Saunderson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stereo Dub,
James White and The Blacks,
Hasil Adkins,
Icehouse,
E-Dancer,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cal Tjader,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eden Ahbez,
Barry Ungar,
Gerry Rafferty,
Q65,
Ronan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Parry Music,
Schoolly D,
Harmonia,
Ludus,
The Barracudas,
The Five Americans,
Glenn Branca,
Bronski Beat,
Bobby Byrd,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Eli Mardock,
The Monks,
Radiohead,
Silicon Teens,
Crispy Ambulance,
Model 500,
Gong,
Mary Jane Girls,
Andrew Hill,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Iggy Pop,
The Neon Judgement,
Brothers Johnson,
The Doors,
Prince Buster,
Roger Hodgson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Archie Shepp,
Ken Boothe,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Slick Rick,
David Axelrod,
MDC,
Rotary Connection,
The Monochrome Set,
In Retrospect,
Sex Pistols,
Gabor Szabo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Martian,
Sun City Girls,
The Mummies,
L. Decosne,
Deadbeat,
EPMD,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.