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 Nigeria and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Ice-T to the grime 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Moss Icon,
Bill Near,
The Knickerbockers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Pop Group,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Hasil Adkins,
Gang Green,
Pierre Henry,
Leonard Cohen,
Deepchord,
D'Angelo,
Roxy Music,
Delon & Dalcan,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sandy B,
Donald Byrd,
Blancmange,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Music Machine,
Scientists,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Star Department,
Nico,
Ralphi Rosario,
Davy DMX,
Rapeman,
Patti Smith,
Outsiders,
World's Most,
Alice Coltrane,
Cheater Slicks,
The Smiths,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Black Dice,
Pole,
Agent Orange,
Circle Jerks,
Lucky Dragons,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Toasters,
Slave,
Roxette,
Barry Ungar,
Tommy Roe,
MC5,
Delta 5,
Panda Bear,
Mo-Dettes,
Easy Going,
New York Dolls,
The Gap Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Dual Sessions,
Section 25,
The Cure,
Thompson Twins,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.