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 Iran and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Axelrod to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Byron Stingily,
The Gun Club,
Funky Four + One,
Heaven 17,
Yellowson,
Young Marble Giants,
Hot Snakes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fifty Foot Hose,
LL Cool J,
Con Funk Shun,
Letta Mbulu,
D'Angelo,
Lightning Bolt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Misunderstood,
Pylon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Arthur Verocai,
Crispian St. Peters,
Donny Hathaway,
Angry Samoans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eurythmics,
Nas,
Khruangbin,
Blake Baxter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
X-101,
New York Dolls,
Erykah Badu,
The Star Department,
Peter & Gordon,
Barrington Levy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
kango's stein massive,
The Seeds,
Zero Boys,
Lebanon Hanover,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Cowsills,
Main Source,
Sexual Harrassment,
Roxette,
The Wake,
Deakin,
Index,
Boz Scaggs,
Animal Collective,
Ituana,
The Raincoats,
Minutemen,
The Red Krayola,
Livin' Joy,
John Cale,
Swell Maps,
Alton Ellis,
Brass Construction,
Althea and Donna,
Rekid, Rekid, Rekid, Rekid.
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.