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 Moldova and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Fugs to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mo-Dettes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Suburban Knight,
Drive Like Jehu,
Terry Callier,
Mo-Dettes,
the Fania All-Stars,
Donald Byrd,
Easy Going,
Sonic Youth,
The Music Machine,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Motions,
Carl Craig,
Shoche,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kevin Saunderson,
Yusef Lateef,
U.S. Maple,
David Axelrod,
Sister Nancy,
Pierre Henry,
Beasts of Bourbon,
the Normal,
Faust,
Letta Mbulu,
Con Funk Shun,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Donny Hathaway,
Ronnie Foster,
Swans,
Eric B and Rakim,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Brothers Johnson,
Crime,
Ossler,
Unwound,
kango's stein massive,
Don Cherry,
Dawn Penn,
Amon Düül,
Banda Bassotti,
Roger Hodgson,
Erykah Badu,
Monks,
Soul II Soul,
Vladislav Delay,
Scott Walker,
a-ha,
Ralphi Rosario,
Average White Band,
Kayak,
The Fire Engines,
The Pop Group,
Anakelly,
Sällskapet,
These Immortal Souls,
Graham Central Station,
Rapeman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.