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 Singapore and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 linndrum 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 The Moleskins to the crunk 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 The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
The Smiths,
the Soft Cell,
Stereo Dub,
One Last Wish,
A Certain Ratio,
Agitation Free,
Camouflage,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lightning Bolt,
The Vogues,
Rites of Spring,
New Age Steppers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Skatalites,
Japan,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Motions,
Radiohead,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Victims,
Wings,
Amazonics,
Minor Threat,
Television,
The Tremeloes,
Jimmy McGriff,
Franke,
Gang Green,
Neu!,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Mojo Men,
Dark Day,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Khruangbin,
Anthony Braxton,
Nick Fraelich,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Visage,
PIL,
Talk Talk,
Eden Ahbez,
The Sound,
Tom Boy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Vladislav Delay,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ralphi Rosario,
OOIOO,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Royal Trux,
Eve St. Jones,
The Cramps,
Interpol,
The Happenings,
The Fall,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.