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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Jakarta and Houston.
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 mellotron 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 Outsiders to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bad Manners record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Amon Düül,
Wasted Youth,
Newcleus,
Godley & Creme,
Andrew Hill,
Kool Moe Dee,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Kinks,
the Human League,
Pere Ubu,
Jacques Brel,
Moebius,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Mandrill,
Excepter,
The Fuzztones,
Lightning Bolt,
Sonny Sharrock,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sonic Youth,
Audionom,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Motions,
The Sisters of Mercy,
David Axelrod,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cameo,
Bobby Sherman,
Hardrive,
EPMD,
Index,
Bill Wells,
Banda Bassotti,
Joe Smooth,
The Sound,
Country Teasers,
Lucky Dragons,
The Seeds,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ituana,
The Leaves,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Echospace,
Deadbeat,
Quadrant,
Nas,
48th St. Collective,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Cecil Taylor,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soulsonic Force,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Count Five,
Nik Kershaw,
Bobby Womack,
Sixth Finger,
Avey Tare,
The Fire Engines,
Robert Hood,
The Durutti Column,
Interpol,
Kerrie Biddell,
Joey Negro,
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.