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 Paraguay and from Milan.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fluxion to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Guru Guru tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Agent Orange 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
ABC,
Letta Mbulu,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Shoche,
Rekid,
Scratch Acid,
Derrick Morgan,
Maleditus Sound,
Joey Negro,
Kerri Chandler,
Negative Approach,
Model 500,
The Fuzztones,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Excepter,
Marine Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
kango's stein massive,
Rotary Connection,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Parry Music,
Ornette Coleman,
Little Man,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
New Age Steppers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Infiniti,
Jesper Dahlback,
Masters at Work,
The Cramps,
Swans,
Charles Mingus,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
AZ,
Max Romeo,
the Sonics,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Boredoms,
Alison Limerick,
Joy Division,
Jacob Miller,
The Associates,
Rod Modell,
Man Parrish,
Boogie Down Productions,
Massinfluence,
Stetsasonic,
Pierre Henry,
Babytalk,
The Techniques,
The Gories,
Fear,
Quantec,
Sandy B,
Mr. Review,
The Star Department,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.