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 Brunei and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 kango's stein massive to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sex Pistols. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Con Funk Shun record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
PIL,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Connie Case,
LL Cool J,
The J.B.'s,
Crash Course in Science,
John Lydon,
The Index,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Grauzone,
Ludus,
R.M.O.,
Lower 48,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Fugs,
Soulsonic Force,
This Heat,
Suburban Knight,
Ornette Coleman,
Harmonia,
Mantronix,
Nik Kershaw,
Terry Callier,
Dennis Brown,
June of 44,
Das Ding,
One Last Wish,
The Stooges,
Pulsallama,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kurtis Blow,
The Electric Prunes,
Pole,
The Dead C,
Pylon,
X-102,
The Gap Band,
Iggy Pop,
Dave Gahan,
Man Eating Sloth,
Minnie Riperton,
Groovy Waters,
Ken Boothe,
Shoche,
Sugar Minott,
Zapp,
Soft Cell,
Peter and Kerry,
Derrick Morgan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Zero Boys,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Fear,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Neu!,
Gregory Isaacs,
Josef K,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.