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 Swaziland and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Black Dice to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Cecil Taylor,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Stereo Dub,
Kas Product,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Busters,
Lou Christie,
T.S.O.L.,
Swans,
Bobby Womack,
Cybotron,
The Index,
OOIOO,
Masters at Work,
Alphaville,
The Red Krayola,
Ornette Coleman,
Flash Fearless,
Shuggie Otis,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Anakelly,
Reuben Wilson,
The Leaves,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Malaria!,
Leonard Cohen,
Cluster,
Subhumans,
Mission of Burma,
Yazoo,
kango's stein massive,
Yaz,
Blancmange,
Slick Rick,
Sugar Minott,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Divine Comedy,
Flamin' Groovies,
John Foxx,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ludus,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wally Richardson,
Stiv Bators,
Brick,
Technova,
Rakim,
Tears for Fears,
Brand Nubian,
Average White Band,
John Holt,
Graham Central Station,
Q and Not U,
Essential Logic,
The Trojans,
Negative Approach,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.