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 San Marino and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Gap Band to the rock 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Urselle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eden Ahbez record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Marshall Jefferson,
Jandek,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Blake Baxter,
Maleditus Sound,
Ultimate Spinach,
DNA,
Funkadelic,
FM Einheit,
Zapp,
Tres Demented,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Doobie Brothers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
cv313,
Delta 5,
Unrelated Segments,
Kaleidoscope,
China Crisis,
Kayak,
Grandmaster Flash,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mad Mike,
the Soft Cell,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Remains,
Basic Channel,
Monks,
Suburban Knight,
Sex Pistols,
Mandrill,
Masters at Work,
Nico,
Max Romeo,
Bill Near,
Danielle Patucci,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cluster,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The United States of America,
The Cramps,
Los Fastidios,
The Techniques,
David McCallum,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Zeros,
Cal Tjader,
Yaz,
UT,
MDC,
Massinfluence,
Qualms,
Reagan Youth,
Barrington Levy,
The Move,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Nick Fraelich,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ronan,
The Mummies,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.