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 Lesotho and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Intrusion to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Hot Snakes. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a FM Einheit record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Harmonia,
the Slits,
The Victims,
Warren Ellis,
The Skatalites,
David Axelrod,
Marcia Griffiths,
Robert Hood,
Das Ding,
Avey Tare,
The Move,
The Misunderstood,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Flash Fearless,
Ultra Naté,
This Heat,
Y Pants,
Juan Atkins,
Ronnie Foster,
Oblivians,
Eurythmics,
Ralphi Rosario,
Black Bananas,
Hot Snakes,
Slave,
The Slits,
Chrome,
Los Fastidios,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eddi Front,
Agent Orange,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Bobby Sherman,
Faust,
Matthew Halsall,
Cal Tjader,
Terry Callier,
Cluster,
The Angels of Light,
Crispian St. Peters,
MDC,
Althea and Donna,
In Retrospect,
Nico,
Aural Exciters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Fuzztones,
Von Mondo,
Rosa Yemen,
The American Breed,
Excepter,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Anthony Braxton,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Brick,
Amon Düül,
Frankie Knuckles,
Absolute Body Control,
James White and The Blacks,
Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey, Chris & Cosey.
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.