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 Andorra and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Delon & Dalcan to the jazz 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 Stockholm Monsters. All the underground hits.
All Ash Ra Tempel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arab on Radar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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?
Basic Channel,
Section 25,
Inner City,
The Leaves,
Clear Light,
Television,
Essential Logic,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lightning Bolt,
Eric Dolphy,
Y Pants,
Terry Callier,
Mo-Dettes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Eurythmics,
Bob Dylan,
Dave Gahan,
Suburban Knight,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gil Scott Heron,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Talk Talk,
Lakeside,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Busters,
Roy Ayers,
Royal Trux,
Oneida,
Rites of Spring,
Eve St. Jones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hashim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Severed Heads,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
a-ha,
Hoover,
Bad Manners,
EPMD,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Dead C,
Easy Going,
Donald Byrd,
Metal Thangz,
Idris Muhammad,
The Slackers,
Young Marble Giants,
Pharoah Sanders,
Sandy B,
Tubeway Army,
Rapeman,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Duran Duran,
The Fire Engines,
Thompson Twins,
The Gun Club,
Black Pus,
Skaos,
AZ,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.