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 Jordan and from Houston.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Zeros to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Busters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Alphaville,
Panda Bear,
Agent Orange,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Seeds,
Bush Tetras,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lower 48,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Vogues,
Nas,
Warren Ellis,
Icehouse,
The J.B.'s,
The Cowsills,
Reuben Wilson,
Smog,
Josef K,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
These Immortal Souls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
EPMD,
Scratch Acid,
Crooked Eye,
Gong,
The Leaves,
Hashim,
Lungfish,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pharoah Sanders,
MC5,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Velvet Underground,
New Order,
Surgeon,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bobby Byrd,
The Monks,
Archie Shepp,
Organ,
Fluxion,
Crispian St. Peters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Toni Rubio,
The Searchers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sugar Minott,
Intrusion,
Fat Boys,
the Germs,
Barry Ungar,
Lightning Bolt,
Black Pus,
Goldenarms,
Laurel Aitken,
June Days,
Popol Vuh,
Reagan Youth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Rosa Yemen,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
New Age Steppers,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.