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 Rwanda and from Bologna.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 A Flock of Seagulls to the dance 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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dark Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Terry Callier,
Niagra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Clear Light,
Maurizio,
Sarah Menescal,
Nirvana,
The Mighty Diamonds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Harpers Bizarre,
Y Pants,
Dawn Penn,
Bobby Byrd,
Soul Sonic Force,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
UT,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bang On A Can,
Barrington Levy,
Ken Boothe,
The Golliwogs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Leonard Cohen,
Blossom Toes,
Mad Mike,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Modern Lovers,
Pussy Galore,
the Swans,
Tim Buckley,
Todd Rundgren,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Symarip,
This Heat,
John Foxx,
ABC,
Pere Ubu,
Nick Fraelich,
Heaven 17,
Patti Smith,
The Birthday Party,
Eurythmics,
Arthur Verocai,
Pulsallama,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Crooked Eye,
Quando Quango,
Soul II Soul,
Shoche,
Panda Bear,
Wasted Youth,
The Five Americans,
The Gap Band,
Jandek,
Wire,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Raincoats,
Interpol, Interpol, Interpol, Interpol.
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.