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 Australia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Yusef Lateef to the dance 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 Spoonie Gee. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultramagnetic MC's record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Jimmy McGriff,
Isaac Hayes,
Crooked Eye,
The Remains,
Barclay James Harvest,
Kerrie Biddell,
Amazonics,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David McCallum,
Susan Cadogan,
Agitation Free,
Barbara Tucker,
The Birthday Party,
Minnie Riperton,
DJ Style,
Cybotron,
Dave Gahan,
The Residents,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lightning Bolt,
The Grass Roots,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Rosa Yemen,
Aural Exciters,
The Victims,
Freddie Wadling,
U.S. Maple,
Darondo,
Joe Smooth,
Radiohead,
The Sound,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Black Sheep,
Saccharine Trust,
Heaven 17,
Stereo Dub,
One Last Wish,
The Gories,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Zapp,
X-101,
Bobby Byrd,
Rod Modell,
Ice-T,
Eve St. Jones,
Ituana,
Brothers Johnson,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dawn Penn,
Soul Sonic Force,
Johnny Clarke,
Vladislav Delay,
the Slits,
Talk Talk,
James White and The Blacks,
Masters at Work,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.