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 Tonga and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro 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 Bad Manners to the crunk 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 Dorothy Ashby. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
China Crisis,
MC5,
Ralphi Rosario,
Tommy Roe,
Mandrill,
Banda Bassotti,
FM Einheit,
Arthur Verocai,
The Stooges,
Derrick Morgan,
Colin Newman,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Brand Nubian,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Sound Behaviour,
New Age Steppers,
Agent Orange,
John Foxx,
The Victims,
DNA,
Faust,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Cure,
The Black Dice,
Country Teasers,
The Star Department,
kango's stein massive,
The Mummies,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Marcia Griffiths,
David Bowie,
Alton Ellis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Howard Jones,
Kurtis Blow,
Ken Boothe,
Josef K,
Danielle Patucci,
Minor Threat,
Boredoms,
Iggy Pop,
Stereo Dub,
Eddi Front,
OOIOO,
Skriet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Dead Boys,
Monolake,
Accadde A,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sarah Menescal,
Yazoo,
Bobby Sherman,
Q65,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.