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 New Zealand and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Terror Squad Feat. Camron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terror Squad Feat. Camron 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marmalade,
Althea and Donna,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Anthony Braxton,
FM Einheit,
The Pop Group,
Robert Wyatt,
Fat Boys,
Maurizio,
Bobbi Humphrey,
D'Angelo,
Danielle Patucci,
Arab on Radar,
Fatback Band,
Yaz,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Neon Judgement,
Cheater Slicks,
E-Dancer,
Hoover,
Procol Harum,
Country Teasers,
Soft Cell,
Magazine,
Gang Starr,
The Fugs,
The Smiths,
OOIOO,
Eric Copeland,
Magma,
Kayak,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marcia Griffiths,
Idris Muhammad,
Depeche Mode,
Malaria!,
Aural Exciters,
Lee Hazlewood,
Davy DMX,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
LL Cool J,
Ralphi Rosario,
Robert Hood,
The Invisible,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camouflage,
James White and The Blacks,
Metal Thangz,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Brick,
Stetsasonic,
Bronski Beat,
Hardrive,
Eve St. Jones,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sixth Finger,
Japan, Japan, Japan, Japan.
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.