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 Suriname and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Philadelphia.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camberwell Now,
Procol Harum,
The United States of America,
Jimmy McGriff,
Marine Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Blackbyrds,
The Names,
Sandy B,
Siglo XX,
Minutemen,
Rotary Connection,
Mars,
Blossom Toes,
Steve Hackett,
Wire,
Hot Snakes,
Kerri Chandler,
The Gladiators,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Mission of Burma,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bobby Womack,
Brick,
The Neon Judgement,
Goldenarms,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Last Poets,
Scion,
Cameo,
Isaac Hayes,
The Happenings,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jesper Dahlback,
Magma,
Frankie Knuckles,
Severed Heads,
Masters at Work,
The Gories,
Joey Negro,
Bootsy Collins,
the Normal,
Andrew Hill,
Section 25,
The Knickerbockers,
the Soft Cell,
Pole,
Letta Mbulu,
Nas,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Toasters,
Q and Not U,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Henry Cow,
Anthony Braxton,
Pantytec,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Junior Murvin,
June of 44,
48th St. Collective,
The Smiths,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.