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 Mauritius and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Charles Mingus to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Lou Reed & Metallica tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reuben Wilson 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence 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?
Danielle Patucci,
The Sound,
Procol Harum,
Japan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scion,
Joy Division,
John Holt,
Mantronix,
the Soft Cell,
Archie Shepp,
Albert Ayler,
The Victims,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Mojo Men,
Stetsasonic,
EPMD,
Jerry's Kids,
The Saints,
The Shadows of Knight,
Lightning Bolt,
James Chance & The Contortions,
David Bowie,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scan 7,
Junior Murvin,
cv313,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Star Department,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joyce Sims,
Davy DMX,
Sun City Girls,
Soft Cell,
Agitation Free,
The Slits,
Outsiders,
Soul II Soul,
The Wake,
Inner City,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mark Hollis,
KRS-One,
John Lydon,
In Retrospect,
Pantaleimon,
Scrapy,
T. Rex,
The Walker Brothers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Public Enemy,
Model 500,
the Slits,
Mandrill,
The Velvet Underground,
Main Source,
Roy Ayers,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.