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 Lesotho and from Glasgow.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Yellowson to the crunk 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Dual Sessions,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Scrapy,
Darondo,
Harpers Bizarre,
Suicide,
Kenny Larkin,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
DNA,
AZ,
Country Teasers,
Easy Going,
June of 44,
Magma,
Robert Hood,
Patti Smith,
The J.B.'s,
Minor Threat,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Gang Starr,
Fugazi,
Bobby Sherman,
Gang Gang Dance,
Flash Fearless,
Sparks,
Minny Pops,
Nick Fraelich,
Sonic Youth,
Ituana,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Cramps,
Bauhaus,
Rakim,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Sixth Finger,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Smoke,
CMW,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Depeche Mode,
Jeff Lynne,
The Tremeloes,
Joensuu 1685,
Lalann,
Jesper Dahlback,
X-101,
T. Rex,
Boredoms,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bootsy Collins,
Khruangbin,
Trumans Water,
Buzzcocks,
John Coltrane,
Fatback Band,
The Associates,
Marmalade,
Howard Jones,
Todd Rundgren,
The Star Department,
KRS-One,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band.
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.