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 Mexico and from Lagos.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the funk 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Piero Umiliani tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Kenny Larkin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cameo,
Kaleidoscope,
Joy Division,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Clear Light,
Rotary Connection,
ABBA,
Sight & Sound,
Ronan,
Icehouse,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Pet Shop Boys,
Junior Murvin,
James White and The Blacks,
Alice Coltrane,
The Fortunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Country Joe & The Fish,
China Crisis,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Bluetip,
Nik Kershaw,
Maleditus Sound,
The American Breed,
Y Pants,
Spandau Ballet,
Steve Hackett,
Andrew Hill,
Sound Behaviour,
The J.B.'s,
Swans,
Isaac Hayes,
Buzzcocks,
Vainqueur,
The Last Poets,
Crooked Eye,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Leaves,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Scientists,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Wings,
The Human League,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Model 500,
Zero Boys,
Morten Harket,
Robert Görl,
The Residents,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sun Ra,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rites of Spring,
The Move,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Evens,
The Smoke,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Red Krayola,
Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green, Gang Green.
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.