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 Russia and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Pop Group record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brothers Johnson,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Gories,
Sun Ra,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Trumans Water,
Jacques Brel,
Carl Craig,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Camberwell Now,
Massinfluence,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scan 7,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Red Krayola,
The Mummies,
The Seeds,
Swans,
Cal Tjader,
Ultra Naté,
Popol Vuh,
The Remains,
Colin Newman,
X-Ray Spex,
Erasure,
Half Japanese,
The Selecter,
Terrestrial Tones,
Basic Channel,
K-Klass,
Anthony Braxton,
The Mojo Men,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bobby Womack,
the Germs,
Brand Nubian,
Derrick May,
Ice-T,
Skriet,
Black Moon,
Ludus,
LL Cool J,
The Monochrome Set,
Eurythmics,
Harry Pussy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Durutti Column,
Fela Kuti,
Reuben Wilson,
Scratch Acid,
Minutemen,
Average White Band,
Aswad,
Yellowson,
Sugar Minott,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders, The Offenders.
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.