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 Yemen and from Columbus.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Woodstock.
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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rap 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 A Flock of Seagulls. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tommy Roe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Subhumans,
Nas,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Essential Logic,
Sugar Minott,
Y Pants,
Wally Richardson,
JFA,
Rosa Yemen,
Interpol,
Whodini,
Curtis Mayfield,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Isaac Hayes,
The Techniques,
the Human League,
Eddi Front,
Kerri Chandler,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eden Ahbez,
The Black Dice,
Harry Pussy,
Shuggie Otis,
James Chance & The Contortions,
June Days,
Radiohead,
Chris Corsano,
Porter Ricks,
EPMD,
The Count Five,
The United States of America,
Spoonie Gee,
Cymande,
Agitation Free,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Chris & Cosey,
Crime,
Rekid,
Faraquet,
Joensuu 1685,
Sun Ra,
Rapeman,
The Mojo Men,
Kaleidoscope,
Wire,
Stockholm Monsters,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Associates,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
OOIOO,
Morten Harket,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sarah Menescal,
Spandau Ballet,
Althea and Donna,
Babytalk,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.