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 Peru and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Crispy Ambulance to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Heavy D & The Boyz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Barbara Tucker,
Eli Mardock,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Junior Murvin,
The Dead C,
Suburban Knight,
Bootsy Collins,
Tommy Roe,
AZ,
Derrick May,
The Angels of Light,
Rites of Spring,
Pole,
Flash Fearless,
Susan Cadogan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Minor Threat,
Don Cherry,
Hashim,
These Immortal Souls,
Tubeway Army,
Piero Umiliani,
The Vogues,
Erykah Badu,
Kerri Chandler,
The Standells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Robert Görl,
Roy Ayers,
Kas Product,
Vladislav Delay,
Babytalk,
Stereo Dub,
Cal Tjader,
Groovy Waters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pere Ubu,
Eric B and Rakim,
Deadbeat,
The Fuzztones,
L. Decosne,
Cymande,
Swell Maps,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Steve Hackett,
Donald Byrd,
Blossom Toes,
Nico,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ice-T,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kaleidoscope,
The Gladiators,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fela Kuti,
Amon Düül,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Television,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.