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 Ukraine and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 808 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 Little Man to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Smog,
Mark Hollis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Oneida,
Marshall Jefferson,
Zapp,
Black Sheep,
Lebanon Hanover,
A Certain Ratio,
8 Eyed Spy,
K-Klass,
Sun City Girls,
David McCallum,
Nation of Ulysses,
Boogie Down Productions,
Lou Christie,
The Knickerbockers,
Interpol,
Junior Murvin,
Cheater Slicks,
Sound Behaviour,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Alphaville,
Ten City,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rod Modell,
DJ Style,
The Slits,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Godley & Creme,
John Coltrane,
Gang Green,
The Standells,
Joyce Sims,
Pylon,
Audionom,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Au Pairs,
the Normal,
Whodini,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Wake,
Eden Ahbez,
Ralphi Rosario,
Arthur Verocai,
F. McDonald,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Grass Roots,
Stockholm Monsters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Minutemen,
The Real Kids,
Jandek,
One Last Wish,
Sonic Youth,
Marmalade,
The Pretty Things,
The Sonics,
Sight & Sound,
Tres Demented,
Shoche,
Agitation Free,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.