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 United Kingdom and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the guitar 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 Yaz to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marcia Griffiths record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DJ Sneak,
Wings,
David Axelrod,
Barclay James Harvest,
Minor Threat,
The Beau Brummels,
Derrick Morgan,
Rotary Connection,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
MC5,
The Velvet Underground,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ralphi Rosario,
Godley & Creme,
8 Eyed Spy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Half Japanese,
The Toasters,
Peter & Gordon,
Drexciya,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kerrie Biddell,
David Bowie,
The Knickerbockers,
X-102,
Ultravox,
Matthew Halsall,
T.S.O.L.,
Gregory Isaacs,
Goldenarms,
The Angels of Light,
Roy Ayers,
Eli Mardock,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Techniques,
China Crisis,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Au Pairs,
Popol Vuh,
Jeff Lynne,
Inner City,
Essential Logic,
Stereo Dub,
DJ Style,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rakim,
Cheater Slicks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Massinfluence,
The Walker Brothers,
Mission of Burma,
Ornette Coleman,
Crooked Eye,
Dark Day,
Jeff Mills,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Second Layer,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The New Christs,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.