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 Korea South and from Jakarta.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five to the rap 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Mad Mike,
Oblivians,
Graham Central Station,
Bizarre Inc.,
Soul Sonic Force,
A Certain Ratio,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
the Bar-Kays,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Y Pants,
Wings,
The Mojo Men,
Tubeway Army,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Porter Ricks,
Pole,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nas,
The Cure,
Lou Reed,
E-Dancer,
Quantec,
D'Angelo,
Q and Not U,
Warren Ellis,
Desert Stars,
Hoover,
Blossom Toes,
Lalann,
The Dead C,
Rufus Thomas,
the Germs,
Yazoo,
Sight & Sound,
the Soft Cell,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Sonics,
Black Sheep,
Los Fastidios,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Wally Richardson,
Derrick Morgan,
Minny Pops,
Mars,
Maurizio,
Roxy Music,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Johnny Clarke,
R.M.O.,
Slick Rick,
The Fall,
Prince Buster,
Erykah Badu,
B.T. Express,
Q65,
Lucky Dragons,
Shuggie Otis,
Minutemen,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.