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 Swaziland and from Madrid.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Harpers Bizarre to the grime 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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Darondo 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Buzzcocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Massinfluence,
Soulsonic Force,
Althea and Donna,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Jacques Brel,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
T. Rex,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bobby Womack,
Delta 5,
Rakim,
Neu!,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Velvet Underground,
Rod Modell,
Suburban Knight,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wire,
Sex Pistols,
The Kinks,
Slave,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Peter & Gordon,
Stereo Dub,
The Seeds,
Judy Mowatt,
The Mojo Men,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Loose Ends,
Eurythmics,
Half Japanese,
Soft Cell,
Drexciya,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lalo Schifrin,
Royal Trux,
Shoche,
The Cure,
the Sonics,
Eddi Front,
Pantaleimon,
The Selecter,
Ponytail,
Amon Düül II,
The Five Americans,
Kenny Larkin,
Piero Umiliani,
Gichy Dan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Vladislav Delay,
Lakeside,
John Foxx,
Cal Tjader,
Faust,
X-101,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.