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 Panama and from Cairo.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe 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 David Bowie to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Eden Ahbez. All the underground hits.
All The Neon Judgement tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skarface record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yusef Lateef,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
X-Ray Spex,
Ronnie Foster,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Royal Trux,
The Raincoats,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gong,
Bad Manners,
Average White Band,
Jandek,
Basic Channel,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Quadrant,
Crooked Eye,
Darondo,
New York Dolls,
The Doors,
John Lydon,
Judy Mowatt,
Robert Wyatt,
The Pop Group,
Altered Images,
Soulsonic Force,
Mary Jane Girls,
a-ha,
Nas,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Flamin' Groovies,
Monks,
Hasil Adkins,
Flash Fearless,
Inner City,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Connie Case,
Groovy Waters,
Chrome,
Magazine,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lindisfarne,
Kenny Larkin,
Nik Kershaw,
World's Most,
The Associates,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lakeside,
Second Layer,
The Invisible,
The Index,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gang Starr,
X-102,
Scan 7,
Alton Ellis,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Skatalites,
Depeche Mode,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.