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 Solomon Islands and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Curtis Mayfield to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Adolescents tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quantec,
Camberwell Now,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Drexciya,
Jesper Dahlback,
Yellowson,
John Coltrane,
The Fuzztones,
The Grass Roots,
Lungfish,
Q and Not U,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lou Reed,
One Last Wish,
Idris Muhammad,
Malaria!,
Minnie Riperton,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Parry Music,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ponytail,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Smoke,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Swans,
The Motions,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Black Sheep,
Michelle Simonal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Liliput,
The Martian,
The Index,
Donald Byrd,
Judy Mowatt,
Blossom Toes,
The Trojans,
Kurtis Blow,
Hot Snakes,
Eden Ahbez,
Sexual Harrassment,
Flipper,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fad Gadget,
Max Romeo,
Johnny Clarke,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gang of Four,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Robert Wyatt,
World's Most,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sun City Girls,
The Pretty Things,
Yazoo,
Aural Exciters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Freddie Wadling,
Lalo Schifrin,
Easy Going,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.