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 South Sudan and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All UT tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Sound,
Adolescents,
Derrick May,
Groovy Waters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bush Tetras,
Jawbox,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kas Product,
Davy DMX,
Sarah Menescal,
Rites of Spring,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Doobie Brothers,
Little Man,
The Kinks,
Todd Terry,
Josef K,
Gang Green,
Judy Mowatt,
Malaria!,
Tomorrow,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eurythmics,
Mo-Dettes,
The Misunderstood,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eric Dolphy,
Pierre Henry,
The Fire Engines,
David Axelrod,
Mandrill,
This Heat,
The Human League,
Faust,
The Searchers,
DJ Sneak,
The Motions,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Idris Muhammad,
The Five Americans,
Amazonics,
Wasted Youth,
Symarip,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The New Christs,
The Residents,
Metal Thangz,
Swell Maps,
The Mojo Men,
AZ,
Rosa Yemen,
Deakin,
Television Personalities,
The Knickerbockers,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.