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 Indonesia and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the linndrum 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 One Last Wish to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
Depeche Mode,
Eden Ahbez,
Aloha Tigers,
The J.B.'s,
Joey Negro,
Warren Ellis,
Minny Pops,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Clear Light,
Kas Product,
Sonny Sharrock,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gang Green,
Popol Vuh,
The Walker Brothers,
Davy DMX,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Rotary Connection,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fugazi,
Rod Modell,
Whodini,
Robert Görl,
Donald Byrd,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bang On A Can,
Thompson Twins,
Ornette Coleman,
Cameo,
Funky Four + One,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ronnie Foster,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sarah Menescal,
Lindisfarne,
The Toasters,
Chris & Cosey,
Cecil Taylor,
L. Decosne,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
10cc,
Suicide,
The Star Department,
The Moleskins,
Unwound,
Qualms,
Buzzcocks,
Letta Mbulu,
The Raincoats,
F. McDonald,
Shuggie Otis,
The Misunderstood,
Monolake,
Bronski Beat,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.