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 Italy and from Lille.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 World's Most to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Beau Brummels record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Adolescents,
Ten City,
the Sonics,
Idris Muhammad,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Slick Rick,
Schoolly D,
F. McDonald,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bronski Beat,
Magazine,
The Doors,
Blossom Toes,
Banda Bassotti,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
MC5,
Malaria!,
The Gories,
Intrusion,
Bluetip,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Mojo Men,
Jacob Miller,
Unwound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wasted Youth,
Young Marble Giants,
Animal Collective,
Delta 5,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Country Teasers,
Black Flag,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
These Immortal Souls,
The Count Five,
Monks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ken Boothe,
Ponytail,
Joey Negro,
The Doobie Brothers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lou Christie,
Oneida,
Television Personalities,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Dual Sessions,
Lyres,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lungfish,
Marshall Jefferson,
Urselle,
Camberwell Now,
Arcadia,
JFA,
Cecil Taylor,
Roy Ayers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Amazonics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.