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 Cuba and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Tehran and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 John Cale to the funk 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 Aswad. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
John Lydon,
Cluster,
Bobby Womack,
Soul Sonic Force,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Prince Buster,
One Last Wish,
The Leaves,
AZ,
Chris & Cosey,
Avey Tare,
Sun City Girls,
Radio Birdman,
Excepter,
Absolute Body Control,
Wire,
Derrick Morgan,
Leonard Cohen,
Erasure,
In Retrospect,
Albert Ayler,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Newcleus,
Gregory Isaacs,
Andrew Hill,
Parry Music,
Cameo,
Lou Christie,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Basic Channel,
New Age Steppers,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Trojans,
Colin Newman,
Gang Starr,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sixth Finger,
Von Mondo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Swell Maps,
Surgeon,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sugar Minott,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Robert Görl,
Eden Ahbez,
Vainqueur,
Half Japanese,
Gang of Four,
The Invisible,
Jeff Mills,
The Sonics,
Amon Düül,
Circle Jerks,
Fugazi,
Soft Machine,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Carl Craig,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.