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 Saudi Arabia and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kevin Saunderson to the crunk 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every D'Angelo 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
Swans,
Bobby Sherman,
Minor Threat,
Bronski Beat,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Talk Talk,
Sparks,
Junior Murvin,
Crooked Eye,
The Black Dice,
Charles Mingus,
Clear Light,
Unwound,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fuzztones,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Drive Like Jehu,
Dual Sessions,
The Angels of Light,
Ken Boothe,
Quando Quango,
Pantytec,
Scrapy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sexual Harrassment,
David McCallum,
Fluxion,
Can,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Motions,
Scratch Acid,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Outsiders,
Archie Shepp,
Tropical Tobacco,
Amazonics,
Warren Ellis,
Sex Pistols,
Fela Kuti,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Niagra,
The United States of America,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Arthur Verocai,
Aswad,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pierre Henry,
Cybotron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Gladiators,
The Gap Band,
David Axelrod,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
James White and The Blacks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Subhumans,
Suicide,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bang On A Can,
The Dead C,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.