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 Poland and from Accra.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 AZ to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fort Wilson Riot record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
X-Ray Spex,
Roy Ayers,
The Young Rascals,
Robert Wyatt,
Chris Corsano,
Moby Grape,
Bauhaus,
Pulsallama,
DJ Sneak,
Masters at Work,
D'Angelo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Leaves,
Ultravox,
The Dead C,
Laurel Aitken,
Organ,
Infiniti,
The Misunderstood,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Idris Muhammad,
Rekid,
Flamin' Groovies,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Charles Mingus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camberwell Now,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sandy B,
The Fortunes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Minutemen,
Popol Vuh,
Gichy Dan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter & Gordon,
OOIOO,
Sam Rivers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ponytail,
Arab on Radar,
Easy Going,
David Bowie,
The Gun Club,
EPMD,
Maurizio,
The Golliwogs,
Rakim,
The Searchers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Young Marble Giants,
The Names,
The Electric Prunes,
Glambeats Corp.,
Index,
Alton Ellis,
Black Bananas,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Interpol,
Bill Wells,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.