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 Chile and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Houston.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Barrington Levy to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Holt 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?
Schoolly D,
Aloha Tigers,
Monolake,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Nik Kershaw,
X-102,
The Moody Blues,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kurtis Blow,
The J.B.'s,
Rekid,
the Sonics,
Arthur Verocai,
Kas Product,
Danielle Patucci,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Essential Logic,
Graham Central Station,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Tears for Fears,
MC5,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Steve Hackett,
Gang of Four,
Frankie Knuckles,
B.T. Express,
Jacob Miller,
Morten Harket,
Guru Guru,
Terrestrial Tones,
Siglo XX,
Young Marble Giants,
Fear,
The Sonics,
The Moleskins,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lucky Dragons,
Erykah Badu,
The Skatalites,
Bill Wells,
Basic Channel,
The Invisible,
Q and Not U,
The Evens,
Drive Like Jehu,
Joyce Sims,
Tubeway Army,
AZ,
Skriet,
Howard Jones,
Grey Daturas,
Alphaville,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Section 25,
The Dave Clark Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stiv Bators,
Janne Schatter,
T.S.O.L.,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.