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 Vanuatu and from Johannesburg.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Rufus Thomas to the crunk 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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bush Tetras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Archie Shepp,
Jeff Mills,
The United States of America,
Agent Orange,
LL Cool J,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jimmy McGriff,
Laurel Aitken,
Television Personalities,
X-102,
In Retrospect,
Kerrie Biddell,
Brothers Johnson,
Excepter,
Jeff Lynne,
the Swans,
Sun City Girls,
Joensuu 1685,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Toni Rubio,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Basic Channel,
Newcleus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Terry Callier,
Faust,
Rakim,
Cluster,
Massinfluence,
The Flesh Eaters,
Arab on Radar,
Matthew Bourne,
Junior Murvin,
A Certain Ratio,
World's Most,
Schoolly D,
Reuben Wilson,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
R.M.O.,
Cal Tjader,
Letta Mbulu,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gregory Isaacs,
Amon Düül II,
Maleditus Sound,
Unrelated Segments,
Jesper Dahlback,
Marc Almond,
Judy Mowatt,
New York Dolls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Buckinghams,
Los Fastidios,
The Doors,
Sex Pistols,
Scientists,
Stockholm Monsters,
Swans,
The Gun Club,
The Slackers,
48th St. Collective,
Alison Limerick,
Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun, Con Funk Shun.
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.