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 Kazakhstan and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity to the grunge 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Donny Hathaway tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric Dolphy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sunsets and Hearts,
MC5,
Sarah Menescal,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
In Retrospect,
The Move,
Television,
Moss Icon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
E-Dancer,
Swans,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Standells,
The Toasters,
Todd Rundgren,
Jeff Lynne,
Fatback Band,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Divine Comedy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
John Cale,
H. Thieme,
Stetsasonic,
Fluxion,
Mo-Dettes,
The Music Machine,
The Dave Clark Five,
Camberwell Now,
Quando Quango,
Amon Düül II,
Lou Reed,
Eddi Front,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pulsallama,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Iggy Pop,
Eli Mardock,
Wings,
Prince Buster,
the Association,
Sight & Sound,
Little Man,
Public Enemy,
The Beau Brummels,
Scion,
Ten City,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gang Green,
B.T. Express,
Unwound,
Albert Ayler,
Wolf Eyes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
a-ha,
T.S.O.L.,
Warren Ellis,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
LL Cool J,
Sam Rivers,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Mojo Men,
Rosa Yemen,
Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners, Bad Manners.
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.