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 St Lucia and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Flesh Eaters to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Basic Channel,
The Human League,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Jeff Lynne,
Peter and Kerry,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Zeros,
Ponytail,
Cal Tjader,
Aural Exciters,
DJ Style,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The J.B.'s,
Eric Dolphy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sonny Sharrock,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Spandau Ballet,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Erykah Badu,
Rosa Yemen,
Unwound,
Flipper,
Scion,
These Immortal Souls,
Oneida,
Reagan Youth,
One Last Wish,
Parry Music,
Sandy B,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Nico,
Shuggie Otis,
Crispy Ambulance,
Eli Mardock,
Harmonia,
Audionom,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pulsallama,
Fela Kuti,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jacques Brel,
The Wake,
Tim Buckley,
Crooked Eye,
The Techniques,
L. Decosne,
Pierre Henry,
Prince Buster,
Duran Duran,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Letta Mbulu,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Boz Scaggs,
The Last Poets,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.