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 Angola and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the crunk 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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonny Sharrock,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The American Breed,
The Human League,
Altered Images,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Blackbyrds,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sex Pistols,
Crime,
The Martian,
Bauhaus,
Marmalade,
Franke,
Johnny Osbourne,
Warren Ellis,
Negative Approach,
Gichy Dan,
Eddi Front,
The Move,
Brick,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Glambeats Corp.,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Q and Not U,
Eric Copeland,
The Five Americans,
The Standells,
Zapp,
the Swans,
Talk Talk,
Sarah Menescal,
Gerry Rafferty,
Q65,
The Fuzztones,
Reagan Youth,
Scientists,
KRS-One,
Leonard Cohen,
Ossler,
The Fire Engines,
The Skatalites,
The Star Department,
David McCallum,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Steve Hackett,
Motorama,
Theoretical Girls,
Wolf Eyes,
T.S.O.L.,
The Electric Prunes,
Sonic Youth,
Reuben Wilson,
The Fall,
Gang Starr,
Symarip,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Zeros,
Gang of Four,
The Misunderstood,
the Normal,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.