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 Tanzania 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Deepchord to the rock 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 Girls At Our Best!. All the underground hits.
All Cabaret Voltaire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Slave record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-Ray Spex record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Throbbing Gristle,
Jawbox,
Harmonia,
Public Image Ltd.,
Parry Music,
Carl Craig,
ABC,
Ituana,
Circle Jerks,
Monks,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Barracudas,
Eric Dolphy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Detroit Cobras,
Deepchord,
Animal Collective,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Public Enemy,
Chris Corsano,
Erykah Badu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Chris & Cosey,
Das Ding,
The Dave Clark Five,
Japan,
The Flesh Eaters,
Aswad,
The Busters,
Crooked Eye,
Ice-T,
The Zeros,
Aloha Tigers,
Lalo Schifrin,
Arthur Verocai,
Television Personalities,
Avey Tare,
China Crisis,
Camberwell Now,
Robert Wyatt,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Angels of Light,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Grass Roots,
K-Klass,
Malaria!,
Kevin Saunderson,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jandek,
Gerry Rafferty,
New Age Steppers,
Slick Rick,
La Düsseldorf,
Slave,
Amon Düül,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Index,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mantronix,
Zero Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joensuu 1685,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.