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 Portugal and from Milan.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Stockholm.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Germs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Halsall record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fugazi,
Eurythmics,
AZ,
Ohio Players,
The Monochrome Set,
Eddi Front,
The Leaves,
Interpol,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
These Immortal Souls,
Danielle Patucci,
Sixth Finger,
Massinfluence,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Music Machine,
OOIOO,
Livin' Joy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Busters,
Yaz,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Grass Roots,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cheater Slicks,
Mark Hollis,
Joy Division,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Trumans Water,
Girls At Our Best!,
Drive Like Jehu,
Idris Muhammad,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mission of Burma,
DJ Style,
K-Klass,
The Durutti Column,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Mummies,
The Blues Magoos,
Royal Trux,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Robert Wyatt,
Fat Boys,
R.M.O.,
Accadde A,
Quantec,
Freddie Wadling,
Deepchord,
Grandmaster Flash,
James Chance & The Contortions,
June of 44,
La Düsseldorf,
Television,
Thee Headcoats,
Yusef Lateef,
John Coltrane,
The Skatalites,
Crooked Eye,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Sheep,
Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.
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.