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 Albania and from Lyon.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Robert Görl to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Maurizio,
The Gladiators,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Funky Four + One,
The Remains,
Davy DMX,
Ituana,
Bluetip,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sarah Menescal,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fluxion,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jandek,
Stereo Dub,
The Gun Club,
Moebius,
Toni Rubio,
Erasure,
Amazonics,
Pharoah Sanders,
Television Personalities,
The Beau Brummels,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
48th St. Collective,
Frankie Knuckles,
Tommy Roe,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
T. Rex,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ken Boothe,
Q65,
Brick,
Jeff Mills,
Albert Ayler,
Swell Maps,
New Age Steppers,
Tears for Fears,
Eric Dolphy,
Wire,
Laurel Aitken,
Ludus,
Newcleus,
Joensuu 1685,
The Slits,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Velvet Underground,
Judy Mowatt,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Make Up,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Technova,
Alton Ellis,
Boredoms,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Juan Atkins,
DJ Style,
Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman, Rapeman.
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.