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 United Kingdom and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 clarinet 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Mary Jane Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Crispy Ambulance,
Barry Ungar,
Erasure,
LL Cool J,
Alton Ellis,
Kurtis Blow,
T.S.O.L.,
Flipper,
Moby Grape,
JFA,
Bootsy Collins,
Patti Smith,
Harry Pussy,
Mission of Burma,
Faraquet,
The Smiths,
Deadbeat,
Eve St. Jones,
Hashim,
Todd Rundgren,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Reuben Wilson,
Negative Approach,
Funkadelic,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sonic Youth,
Ten City,
Girls At Our Best!,
Desert Stars,
D'Angelo,
Rotary Connection,
Michelle Simonal,
CMW,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Mo-Dettes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joey Negro,
The American Breed,
a-ha,
Camberwell Now,
Babytalk,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Juan Atkins,
Tropical Tobacco,
Colin Newman,
The Gladiators,
Barbara Tucker,
Man Eating Sloth,
48th St. Collective,
Scientists,
Rod Modell,
Sister Nancy,
Pantaleimon,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pussy Galore,
Severed Heads,
Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer, Second Layer.
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.