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 Lithuania and from Lille.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mexico City.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
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 Alison Limerick to the disco 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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All The Red Krayola tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Skarface,
Peter and Kerry,
Eric Dolphy,
Dennis Brown,
Negative Approach,
Jeru the Damaja,
Yellowson,
The Leaves,
Derrick Morgan,
Symarip,
Interpol,
Inner City,
The Fire Engines,
Supertramp,
Basic Channel,
Mantronix,
Deakin,
Organ,
Eli Mardock,
David Bowie,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gong,
The Fugs,
Peter & Gordon,
The Cure,
Jeff Lynne,
Khruangbin,
Vladislav Delay,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Association,
The Techniques,
Ronan,
Soulsonic Force,
Intrusion,
Sister Nancy,
Pussy Galore,
Curtis Mayfield,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Silicon Teens,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Royal Trux,
Subhumans,
T.S.O.L.,
Isaac Hayes,
Excepter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Doors,
The Mummies,
Radio Birdman,
The Monochrome Set,
B.T. Express,
Fad Gadget,
Piero Umiliani,
Mars,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Echospace,
Janne Schatter,
Grauzone,
Boogie Down Productions,
Zapp,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.