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 Iceland and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 sitar 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 Loose Ends to the dance 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Sonics 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bizarre Inc.,
Fad Gadget,
The Fall,
Tommy Roe,
Adolescents,
Eden Ahbez,
The Skatalites,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Soulsonic Force,
Brand Nubian,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
F. McDonald,
The Vogues,
AZ,
Sex Pistols,
Joyce Sims,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Happenings,
Boredoms,
Magazine,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Groovy Waters,
Swell Maps,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Frankie Knuckles,
X-101,
The Gun Club,
The American Breed,
The Victims,
Vainqueur,
Inner City,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Sonics,
The Walker Brothers,
Jawbox,
OOIOO,
The Litter,
Smog,
The Selecter,
Jeff Lynne,
The Velvet Underground,
Jerry's Kids,
James White and The Blacks,
The J.B.'s,
The Five Americans,
the Slits,
Bobby Womack,
Chrome,
David McCallum,
Bauhaus,
The Evens,
The Martian,
the Germs,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Silicon Teens,
The Golliwogs,
Wings,
D'Angelo,
Freddie Wadling,
Bill Wells,
Buzzcocks,
The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins, The Moleskins.
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.