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 Paraguay and from Salvador.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 organ 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 KRS-One to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New York Dolls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Associates,
Laurel Aitken,
Ultra Naté,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Technova,
Surgeon,
Faust,
Popol Vuh,
Amon Düül,
Schoolly D,
Roger Hodgson,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sun Ra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Mars,
Ten City,
Boredoms,
EPMD,
Amazonics,
Robert Hood,
Ice-T,
Faraquet,
Morten Harket,
Icehouse,
The Mojo Men,
Crispian St. Peters,
Throbbing Gristle,
Panda Bear,
Rufus Thomas,
Jandek,
Iggy Pop,
UT,
Joe Smooth,
Grey Daturas,
Pulsallama,
Pere Ubu,
Infiniti,
Mantronix,
Chrome,
Blake Baxter,
The Cowsills,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jerry's Kids,
Y Pants,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Human League,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Banda Bassotti,
Livin' Joy,
Lungfish,
Man Parrish,
Albert Ayler,
Nirvana,
The Residents,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Amon Düül II,
Goldenarms,
Kevin Saunderson,
Vladislav Delay,
Robert Görl,
Maleditus Sound,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.