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 Cameroon and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 clarinet 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 Mr. Review to the funk 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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Pantytec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Charles Mingus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Motions,
E-Dancer,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
In Retrospect,
Massinfluence,
Black Sheep,
The Shadows of Knight,
David McCallum,
Marine Girls,
Wolf Eyes,
Delon & Dalcan,
Joe Finger,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Heaven 17,
Eve St. Jones,
Goldenarms,
T.S.O.L.,
John Coltrane,
Ultra Naté,
Agitation Free,
Andrew Hill,
Lou Reed,
Hasil Adkins,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Aural Exciters,
Warsaw,
Nick Fraelich,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Tomorrow,
The Red Krayola,
Gerry Rafferty,
Mars,
Con Funk Shun,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Selecter,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Make Up,
Shuggie Otis,
Marcia Griffiths,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Isaac Hayes,
Bobby Byrd,
John Holt,
Little Man,
Sight & Sound,
Subhumans,
Lebanon Hanover,
China Crisis,
Marmalade,
Skriet,
Piero Umiliani,
These Immortal Souls,
Delta 5,
Aloha Tigers,
Robert Hood,
The New Christs,
Jeff Lynne,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Wasted Youth,
Pere Ubu,
Television Personalities,
Sarah Menescal,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.