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 Liberia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the oboe 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 Todd Terry to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Magazine,
Nick Fraelich,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Todd Rundgren,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sonic Youth,
the Fania All-Stars,
Roy Ayers,
Isaac Hayes,
Maurizio,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dennis Brown,
Frankie Knuckles,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Fire Engines,
Skaos,
the Germs,
Sound Behaviour,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cluster,
Cal Tjader,
Ornette Coleman,
Amon Düül II,
Donald Byrd,
Ronnie Foster,
Monks,
World's Most,
Radiopuhelimet,
Mary Jane Girls,
Delta 5,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
JFA,
Josef K,
June of 44,
Hasil Adkins,
Lindisfarne,
Duran Duran,
The J.B.'s,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Y Pants,
Marine Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
PIL,
New Order,
The Grass Roots,
Soulsonic Force,
Toni Rubio,
Theoretical Girls,
Arab on Radar,
Gang Green,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Five Americans,
Fluxion,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Raincoats,
Spoonie Gee,
Visage,
Blancmange,
The Birthday Party,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.