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 Jamaica and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Janne Schatter to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Robert Görl. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
Television,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Warren Ellis,
The Slackers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Carl Craig,
Joyce Sims,
Cecil Taylor,
Skriet,
Rapeman,
K-Klass,
The Cowsills,
Robert Hood,
Crispian St. Peters,
Organ,
Sight & Sound,
Jandek,
Hasil Adkins,
The Gun Club,
The Skatalites,
Al Stewart,
Stiv Bators,
Dark Day,
Eric Dolphy,
Gabor Szabo,
Au Pairs,
Minutemen,
Sonic Youth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Easy Going,
Ronan,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Babytalk,
The Red Krayola,
Surgeon,
Aural Exciters,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
R.M.O.,
Black Sheep,
Banda Bassotti,
The Buckinghams,
Godley & Creme,
Mandrill,
Ronnie Foster,
L. Decosne,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
DJ Style,
Hardrive,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Yaz,
The Names,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Interpol,
Section 25,
Black Bananas,
Simply Red,
The Monochrome Set,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.