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 Hungary and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 theremin 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 Davy DMX to the grime 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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Ronnie Foster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
DJ Sneak,
Godley & Creme,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Isaac Hayes,
Cymande,
Cameo,
the Normal,
Dead Boys,
Goldenarms,
The Residents,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scott Walker,
The Knickerbockers,
Motorama,
Aswad,
The Gladiators,
The Cowsills,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Leaves,
Bronski Beat,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Alice Coltrane,
Black Sheep,
Altered Images,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nick Fraelich,
the Human League,
The Slits,
Whodini,
Prince Buster,
AZ,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
E-Dancer,
Tears for Fears,
The Golliwogs,
Skarface,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Busters,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Stockholm Monsters,
Fela Kuti,
Brick,
Kaleidoscope,
Boz Scaggs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ituana,
The Smoke,
DNA,
The Zeros,
Lalo Schifrin,
The American Breed,
Lindisfarne,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sun City Girls,
Y Pants,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.