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 Barbados and from Portland.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the oboe 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Fortunes. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harmonia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Slave,
The Skatalites,
the Human League,
Pole,
The Knickerbockers,
Eric Dolphy,
Trumans Water,
kango's stein massive,
Cameo,
Angry Samoans,
Loose Ends,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Erykah Badu,
Simply Red,
Bob Dylan,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bill Wells,
The Flesh Eaters,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
JFA,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Association,
Aloha Tigers,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Rotary Connection,
Tim Buckley,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Youth Brigade,
The Blues Magoos,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Motions,
Susan Cadogan,
Bobby Womack,
Harmonia,
Wally Richardson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Electric Prunes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
H. Thieme,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed,
Joe Finger,
Das Ding,
Shuggie Otis,
Cecil Taylor,
Brand Nubian,
Quadrant,
Essential Logic,
Rites of Spring,
Derrick May,
Unrelated Segments,
Funky Four + One,
the Bar-Kays,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Animal Collective,
Roy Ayers,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Litter,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.