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 Malaysia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nirvana to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Chocolate Watch Band. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
The Skatalites,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Gap Band,
Animal Collective,
Ultra Naté,
Funky Four + One,
Khruangbin,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Doors,
Cal Tjader,
Crispy Ambulance,
Trumans Water,
Minny Pops,
The Knickerbockers,
Bad Manners,
Chrome,
Mr. Review,
Can,
The Last Poets,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
ABC,
Lou Christie,
Anthony Braxton,
Altered Images,
The Blues Magoos,
Pussy Galore,
June Days,
R.M.O.,
Donny Hathaway,
Harpers Bizarre,
Wire,
Eden Ahbez,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scott Walker,
Lungfish,
Eve St. Jones,
Pagans,
In Retrospect,
Alton Ellis,
Eric Copeland,
The Associates,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ituana,
The Walker Brothers,
Johnny Clarke,
Skaos,
Robert Wyatt,
The Smiths,
Rekid,
Gichy Dan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lucky Dragons,
Quando Quango,
Boz Scaggs,
Silicon Teens,
China Crisis,
Camberwell Now,
LL Cool J,
Jeff Mills,
the Soft Cell,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.