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 Madagascar and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Oneida to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Peter & Gordon,
Smog,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dual Sessions,
New Order,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Tim Buckley,
Scratch Acid,
Grey Daturas,
Sparks,
Pulsallama,
John Coltrane,
the Bar-Kays,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Star Department,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
CMW,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pantaleimon,
Fad Gadget,
Sight & Sound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Los Fastidios,
Motorama,
Section 25,
Jandek,
Eve St. Jones,
Soft Machine,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jeru the Damaja,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Urselle,
Gregory Isaacs,
Pere Ubu,
Iggy Pop,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bizarre Inc.,
Warren Ellis,
Monolake,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Can,
Japan,
Saccharine Trust,
Groovy Waters,
Camouflage,
Eurythmics,
Michelle Simonal,
Whodini,
Gichy Dan,
X-102,
Erykah Badu,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marvin Gaye,
Chris Corsano,
The New Christs,
The Selecter,
Kayak,
the Swans,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.