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 India and from Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Rekid to the funk 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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Mars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Max Romeo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Danielle Patucci,
Michelle Simonal,
Iggy Pop,
The J.B.'s,
Don Cherry,
Althea and Donna,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Brand Nubian,
In Retrospect,
Wings,
Throbbing Gristle,
10cc,
One Last Wish,
Arthur Verocai,
Adolescents,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eden Ahbez,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mandrill,
Idris Muhammad,
The Associates,
Anakelly,
The Fire Engines,
The Victims,
The Monks,
Index,
Thompson Twins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Gap Band,
Prince Buster,
Joe Smooth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Toni Rubio,
Mars,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Q and Not U,
John Foxx,
Marcia Griffiths,
Camberwell Now,
Mr. Review,
The Dead C,
Fela Kuti,
Glenn Branca,
The Cramps,
JFA,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bill Near,
Roger Hodgson,
Jandek,
DJ Style,
A Certain Ratio,
Leonard Cohen,
Jacques Brel,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.