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 Korea North and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro 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 Hasil Adkins to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Barbara Tucker. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Arcadia,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Smog,
Grauzone,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Tubeway Army,
Popol Vuh,
Yusef Lateef,
Roy Ayers,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Royal Trux,
Ken Boothe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Don Cherry,
a-ha,
Tomorrow,
Lightning Bolt,
Ponytail,
Robert Wyatt,
Tom Boy,
Intrusion,
Bronski Beat,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Swans,
Funkadelic,
Ultravox,
Gang Starr,
Donald Byrd,
The Fire Engines,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
ABBA,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Loose Ends,
Sarah Menescal,
Sun City Girls,
Q65,
Junior Murvin,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Byron Stingily,
The Fugs,
Crash Course in Science,
The Electric Prunes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Fall,
Barry Ungar,
Iggy Pop,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mandrill,
Amon Düül II,
Moss Icon,
Hot Snakes,
Lucky Dragons,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Von Mondo,
Average White Band,
Main Source,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Traffic Nightmare,
X-101,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.