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 Qatar and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Funkadelic to the techno 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 The Buckinghams. All the underground hits.
All Bronski Beat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultimate Spinach 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boredoms,
Roy Ayers,
Scott Walker,
Aloha Tigers,
Dark Day,
KRS-One,
Quadrant,
Sonny Sharrock,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Durutti Column,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sun Ra,
Flash Fearless,
Chris & Cosey,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Names,
Scrapy,
Sugar Minott,
Colin Newman,
Eric Copeland,
Mad Mike,
Fugazi,
John Lydon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Rufus Thomas,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Country Joe & The Fish,
New Order,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Sonics,
Gil Scott Heron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bobby Byrd,
Panda Bear,
Kerrie Biddell,
Anthony Braxton,
This Heat,
Aural Exciters,
Television,
Minutemen,
Frankie Knuckles,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Franke,
Trumans Water,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ken Boothe,
Josef K,
Echospace,
Johnny Osbourne,
Barrington Levy,
a-ha,
Ash Ra Tempel,
D'Angelo,
Erasure,
B.T. Express,
Reuben Wilson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza, Eyeless In Gaza.
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.