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 Nicaragua and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Sonic Youth to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All Rhythm & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eddi Front record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blake Baxter,
Boz Scaggs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
New Age Steppers,
Khruangbin,
The Gladiators,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Alison Limerick,
The Moody Blues,
Bronski Beat,
The Birthday Party,
Cluster,
The Victims,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Infiniti,
Flipper,
Alphaville,
Nils Olav,
Zapp,
Livin' Joy,
The Stooges,
Young Marble Giants,
Spoonie Gee,
Juan Atkins,
The Fortunes,
Arab on Radar,
the Swans,
Bob Dylan,
The Blues Magoos,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Soft Cell,
Tommy Roe,
Stetsasonic,
Idris Muhammad,
Kool Moe Dee,
UT,
Joe Finger,
Pagans,
The Fugs,
Crime,
Nirvana,
10cc,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Surgeon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neu!,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Public Image Ltd.,
Althea and Donna,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
CMW,
The Misunderstood,
China Crisis,
The Slits,
Toni Rubio,
Eric Copeland,
Clear Light,
Lindisfarne,
Sugar Minott,
Yaz,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.