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 Sudan and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 China Crisis to the disco 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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a kango's stein massive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Steve Hackett,
The Human League,
Marmalade,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
E-Dancer,
Darondo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
the Human League,
Robert Wyatt,
Vladislav Delay,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kayak,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Supertramp,
The Searchers,
Juan Atkins,
These Immortal Souls,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
David Axelrod,
Swans,
Fear,
The Velvet Underground,
Donald Byrd,
Jawbox,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Davy DMX,
Alison Limerick,
Michelle Simonal,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kenny Larkin,
Joy Division,
Second Layer,
Hasil Adkins,
Zapp,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Red Krayola,
Desert Stars,
Skarface,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ossler,
Khruangbin,
The Motions,
Sällskapet,
Sonny Sharrock,
DJ Sneak,
Barry Ungar,
Erasure,
Matthew Bourne,
The Knickerbockers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Lucky Dragons,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Unrelated Segments,
The Index,
Patti Smith,
Drive Like Jehu,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.