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 Latvia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Warren Ellis to the electroclash 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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 Invisible,
Barclay James Harvest,
Donny Hathaway,
Dave Gahan,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Durutti Column,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Junior Murvin,
Neil Young,
Drexciya,
The Detroit Cobras,
One Last Wish,
Grauzone,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Symarip,
The Velvet Underground,
Clear Light,
Minutemen,
Suburban Knight,
Bootsy Collins,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sun Ra,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sonny Sharrock,
Peter & Gordon,
June of 44,
Scott Walker,
Lou Reed,
Barbara Tucker,
The Pop Group,
The Monks,
Josef K,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Lalann,
The Victims,
Nico,
Bush Tetras,
Laurel Aitken,
Dual Sessions,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Arthur Verocai,
Con Funk Shun,
Desert Stars,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eve St. Jones,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Black Bananas,
Hashim,
Schoolly D,
The Gap Band,
Technova,
Barrington Levy,
Robert Wyatt,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Absolute Body Control,
Al Stewart,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fuzztones,
Todd Terry,
Ponytail,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.