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 Slovakia and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Audionom to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Lalo Schifrin,
Supertramp,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Idris Muhammad,
Monolake,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Barbara Tucker,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Animal Collective,
Loose Ends,
The Gap Band,
The Modern Lovers,
Tomorrow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Johnny Clarke,
The Birthday Party,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Misunderstood,
Brand Nubian,
Thompson Twins,
Tubeway Army,
Angry Samoans,
Heaven 17,
Iggy Pop,
D'Angelo,
Trumans Water,
Excepter,
The Tremeloes,
Nas,
Bluetip,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fugs,
10cc,
The Evens,
Magazine,
La Düsseldorf,
Pantytec,
Mantronix,
Sixth Finger,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Silicon Teens,
Desert Stars,
CMW,
Ronan,
Quantec,
Jeff Mills,
Scion,
Goldenarms,
Terry Callier,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kurtis Blow,
Minor Threat,
Hot Snakes,
Scrapy,
The Knickerbockers,
Stereo Dub,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy, Public Enemy.
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.