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 Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Sexual Harrassment to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Siglo XX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Procol Harum,
X-101,
Tomorrow,
Agitation Free,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Underground Resistance,
Make Up,
Sparks,
World's Most,
Quantec,
Danielle Patucci,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Aloha Tigers,
Marshall Jefferson,
the Swans,
The Alarm Clocks,
Avey Tare,
The Tremeloes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Joe Smooth,
Gabor Szabo,
Simply Red,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Slackers,
Curtis Mayfield,
a-ha,
Ludus,
The Fall,
Sam Rivers,
The Fugs,
Drexciya,
Rites of Spring,
The Sonics,
Model 500,
Iggy Pop,
Ralphi Rosario,
Darondo,
Cybotron,
Section 25,
Loose Ends,
Brick,
Index,
Alison Limerick,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sandy B,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
KRS-One,
Lower 48,
Scratch Acid,
Joy Division,
The Fuzztones,
Hardrive,
The Blues Magoos,
Barrington Levy,
Rosa Yemen,
Pylon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bob Dylan,
Archie Shepp,
James White and The Blacks,
The Moody Blues,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.