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 Philippines and from Spokane.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 The Velvet Underground to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Fluxion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chrome,
Graham Central Station,
Sällskapet,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Robert Wyatt,
Glenn Branca,
the Bar-Kays,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Flesh Eaters,
Nirvana,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sun Ra,
PIL,
Goldenarms,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Saints,
Roger Hodgson,
LL Cool J,
Radiopuhelimet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Fall,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sam Rivers,
Frankie Knuckles,
Guru Guru,
the Normal,
The Move,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sight & Sound,
The Moody Blues,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Excepter,
Carl Craig,
Saccharine Trust,
Average White Band,
Television,
X-101,
Surgeon,
Outsiders,
Kurtis Blow,
Ossler,
Dawn Penn,
Hardrive,
Metal Thangz,
The Wake,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Derrick Morgan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Soft Machine,
Quantec,
The Gladiators,
Rod Modell,
Bobby Byrd,
Pylon,
Tim Buckley,
Neu!,
DJ Style,
Buzzcocks,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.