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 Jamaica and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cramps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cymande,
Bobby Sherman,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Barracudas,
Nico,
Alice Coltrane,
Ohio Players,
Maurizio,
The Slackers,
Kas Product,
Public Image Ltd.,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Index,
Sarah Menescal,
Roger Hodgson,
Saccharine Trust,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bush Tetras,
Robert Hood,
Warren Ellis,
The Shadows of Knight,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kaleidoscope,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lebanon Hanover,
Charles Mingus,
Dennis Brown,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Camberwell Now,
Marc Almond,
X-102,
Colin Newman,
X-101,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fad Gadget,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Terrestrial Tones,
Boz Scaggs,
Gang of Four,
the Bar-Kays,
Massinfluence,
Ornette Coleman,
Thompson Twins,
Panda Bear,
The Cramps,
Absolute Body Control,
ABBA,
Jacob Miller,
L. Decosne,
Skriet,
Amon Düül,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Maleditus Sound,
Mark Hollis,
Leonard Cohen,
Fluxion,
Excepter,
Duran Duran,
Niagra,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.