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 Philippines and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Birthday Party to the crunk 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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tomorrow 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
48th St. Collective,
Anthony Braxton,
The Sonics,
Joy Division,
the Soft Cell,
Hasil Adkins,
Gang Green,
Dennis Brown,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
John Cale,
The Smoke,
Grey Daturas,
Rites of Spring,
Television,
Von Mondo,
John Coltrane,
The Music Machine,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Japan,
cv313,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Chris & Cosey,
Curtis Mayfield,
David Axelrod,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fugs,
Negative Approach,
Scientists,
Metal Thangz,
Rekid,
Easy Going,
Public Enemy,
The Gun Club,
Con Funk Shun,
Harry Pussy,
Sight & Sound,
Tommy Roe,
Crash Course in Science,
Pole,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Fluxion,
Warren Ellis,
Radiohead,
Can,
Derrick May,
China Crisis,
Mary Jane Girls,
David McCallum,
Delta 5,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pagans,
Traffic Nightmare,
Quantec,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Parry Music,
MDC,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes, Electric Prunes.
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.