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 China and from Tehran.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 808 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 The Smiths to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Derrick Morgan. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gichy Dan,
Von Mondo,
Ronan,
B.T. Express,
The American Breed,
Talk Talk,
Soft Machine,
The Smiths,
The Alarm Clocks,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ice-T,
LL Cool J,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Young Rascals,
Deepchord,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Toasters,
DJ Style,
Sällskapet,
Parry Music,
Clear Light,
The Sound,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Donald Byrd,
Brand Nubian,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Depeche Mode,
Rod Modell,
Crispy Ambulance,
Stiv Bators,
Skriet,
Funky Four + One,
Black Sheep,
The Gap Band,
The Invisible,
Warsaw,
The Grass Roots,
Kenny Larkin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Matthew Halsall,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Residents,
Y Pants,
Kool Moe Dee,
Japan,
This Heat,
Barclay James Harvest,
Susan Cadogan,
Underground Resistance,
Unrelated Segments,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fall,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Radiohead,
The Beau Brummels,
Bizarre Inc.,
Intrusion,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.