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 Japan and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Brothers Johnson to the rap 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 Stiv Bators. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
The Fuzztones,
The Blues Magoos,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Bill Wells,
Ohio Players,
Q and Not U,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eric Dolphy,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Index,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Soulsonic Force,
Lower 48,
Inner City,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Victims,
Procol Harum,
Y Pants,
Nils Olav,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Saints,
Sunsets and Hearts,
David Axelrod,
Yazoo,
Yaz,
The Searchers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Accadde A,
Lindisfarne,
Panda Bear,
Skarface,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Cluster,
Hasil Adkins,
the Swans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Letta Mbulu,
John Lydon,
The Motions,
Don Cherry,
cv313,
Underground Resistance,
the Fania All-Stars,
X-102,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Shoche,
Lightning Bolt,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Kinks,
F. McDonald,
Barbara Tucker,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sarah Menescal,
The Beau Brummels,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Erasure,
Urselle,
Icehouse,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.