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 Mongolia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 synthesizer 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 Half Japanese to the rock 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 Donny Hathaway. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a spring reverb 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 güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Curtis Mayfield,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Dave Clark Five,
FM Einheit,
Banda Bassotti,
The Mummies,
The Monks,
Sugar Minott,
La Düsseldorf,
Todd Rundgren,
Brass Construction,
Agitation Free,
Harmonia,
the Slits,
the Sonics,
Sonic Youth,
Technova,
Kas Product,
Basic Channel,
Fatback Band,
Ultimate Spinach,
Barclay James Harvest,
Chris Corsano,
Subhumans,
Minnie Riperton,
Quadrant,
X-101,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Sheep,
Prince Buster,
The Walker Brothers,
The Real Kids,
Grey Daturas,
World's Most,
Derrick Morgan,
Henry Cow,
Surgeon,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lakeside,
John Coltrane,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sister Nancy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Victims,
T.S.O.L.,
Rapeman,
Harpers Bizarre,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Hoover,
Blossom Toes,
Isaac Hayes,
B.T. Express,
Gang Green,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Associates,
The Golliwogs,
Au Pairs,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.