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 Jordan and from Salvador.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 marimba 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 Rod Modell to the jazz 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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deakin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques 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?
Aaron Thompson,
Oblivians,
Sonic Youth,
Accadde A,
Q and Not U,
Television,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Juan Atkins,
Prince Buster,
Chris Corsano,
Sexual Harrassment,
Stereo Dub,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Beau Brummels,
Thee Headcoats,
Johnny Osbourne,
Wolf Eyes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Vainqueur,
MDC,
The Music Machine,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Echospace,
Marvin Gaye,
Nils Olav,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Siglo XX,
Jacques Brel,
Deadbeat,
Organ,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The New Christs,
Jerry's Kids,
The Happenings,
Lyres,
Sparks,
UT,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Monolake,
Gong,
Alison Limerick,
New Age Steppers,
In Retrospect,
Stiv Bators,
Amon Düül II,
PIL,
Susan Cadogan,
Delta 5,
10cc,
The Raincoats,
Von Mondo,
Soulsonic Force,
James White and The Blacks,
Iggy Pop,
Ten City,
Terrestrial Tones,
K-Klass,
Fad Gadget,
The Dead C,
Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now, Camberwell Now.
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.