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 Oman 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Last Poets to the jazz 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 Crime. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hashim 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Can,
Funky Four + One,
Jesper Dahlback,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dennis Brown,
Soul Sonic Force,
Bobby Womack,
Sound Behaviour,
Television,
Freddie Wadling,
Sexual Harrassment,
Q65,
Ultravox,
David Axelrod,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Q and Not U,
EPMD,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Joensuu 1685,
Shuggie Otis,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Toasters,
Bush Tetras,
Sam Rivers,
Rod Modell,
Deakin,
Motorama,
Gerry Rafferty,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marmalade,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Groovy Waters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Echospace,
Lungfish,
This Heat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moebius,
Thompson Twins,
the Bar-Kays,
Blancmange,
Eric Copeland,
Unwound,
The Buckinghams,
Ituana,
UT,
Flash Fearless,
The Offenders,
Maleditus Sound,
Blossom Toes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Panda Bear,
Black Bananas,
Erykah Badu,
The Fire Engines,
Loose Ends,
Magazine,
T. Rex,
Howard Jones,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.