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 Tuvalu and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 the Swans to the dance 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 Sugar Minott. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Kas Product,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
kango's stein massive,
Little Man,
The Happenings,
Essential Logic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rakim,
Slick Rick,
New York Dolls,
Royal Trux,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Blossom Toes,
Sixth Finger,
ABC,
The American Breed,
Kaleidoscope,
Chrome,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Grass Roots,
Theoretical Girls,
The Victims,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Patti Smith,
New Order,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mars,
Bluetip,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Girls At Our Best!,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bauhaus,
Symarip,
Duran Duran,
The Count Five,
The Trojans,
The Birthday Party,
David Bowie,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Malaria!,
The Blues Magoos,
Quando Quango,
Reagan Youth,
Faust,
Tomorrow,
In Retrospect,
Alton Ellis,
Porter Ricks,
The Young Rascals,
Josef K,
The Fortunes,
Agitation Free,
Mark Hollis,
The Gories,
Wolf Eyes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Barbara Tucker,
Zero Boys,
ABBA,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Morten Harket,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.