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 Rwanda and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the theremin 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 Andrew Hill to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Josef K,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Marshall Jefferson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Litter,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nirvana,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Royal Trux,
Shoche,
The Doors,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Brothers Johnson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Severed Heads,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Last Poets,
Cybotron,
Lee Hazlewood,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ronnie Foster,
Eden Ahbez,
Circle Jerks,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Jerry's Kids,
John Foxx,
Sam Rivers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lucky Dragons,
Marc Almond,
Vainqueur,
Bush Tetras,
Mary Jane Girls,
Popol Vuh,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Boz Scaggs,
Gichy Dan,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rod Modell,
Lakeside,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Animal Collective,
The Zeros,
Donny Hathaway,
Freddie Wadling,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marvin Gaye,
The Dirtbombs,
The Stooges,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wolf Eyes,
LL Cool J,
China Crisis,
Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson, Reuben Wilson.
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.