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 Angola and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 Sao Paulo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Audionom to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
MC5,
The Pop Group,
The New Christs,
The Gladiators,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Skriet,
Radiopuhelimet,
Technova,
Andrew Hill,
48th St. Collective,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Albert Ayler,
Avey Tare,
Little Man,
Das Ding,
Bill Wells,
Sun City Girls,
Chris & Cosey,
Los Fastidios,
Juan Atkins,
Minny Pops,
The Sonics,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Barracudas,
Severed Heads,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Litter,
Organ,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Malaria!,
Idris Muhammad,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
D'Angelo,
Gang of Four,
Easy Going,
Kurtis Blow,
Can,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Motorama,
Stiv Bators,
Qualms,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Audionom,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Hoover,
Funkadelic,
Supertramp,
The Fortunes,
Eddi Front,
The Neon Judgement,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Skarface,
Maleditus Sound,
Colin Newman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Johnny Osbourne,
Reagan Youth,
Rakim,
DNA,
Jacques Brel,
Scion,
Symarip, Symarip, Symarip, Symarip.
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.