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 Qatar and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Duran Duran record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
London Community Gospel Choir,
X-Ray Spex,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Piero Umiliani,
Blancmange,
FM Einheit,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Letta Mbulu,
John Holt,
AZ,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sister Nancy,
Juan Atkins,
The Stooges,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Swell Maps,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Theoretical Girls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Television,
Ludus,
Wolf Eyes,
The Electric Prunes,
Amazonics,
The Gap Band,
Bobby Womack,
Suicide,
Lalann,
Whodini,
Ossler,
Soulsonic Force,
Marvin Gaye,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sarah Menescal,
The Grass Roots,
Roger Hodgson,
a-ha,
The Last Poets,
Minor Threat,
Basic Channel,
Skaos,
Fugazi,
Electric Prunes,
Skarface,
The Velvet Underground,
Joensuu 1685,
Sun Ra,
The Zeros,
The Residents,
Lindisfarne,
Fatback Band,
Flash Fearless,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Seeds,
Los Fastidios,
Technova,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Franke,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Motorama,
Alison Limerick,
Mars,
Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding.
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.