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 Syria and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe 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 Warsaw 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 Marmalade. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cramps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Absolute Body Control,
Livin' Joy,
Minor Threat,
Lungfish,
Cybotron,
The Standells,
Prince Buster,
Pagans,
The Martian,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jeff Mills,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Motions,
Yaz,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Magma,
The New Christs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Duran Duran,
Brand Nubian,
Black Flag,
Clear Light,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Yazoo,
Wolf Eyes,
Piero Umiliani,
Popol Vuh,
Can,
Letta Mbulu,
D'Angelo,
H. Thieme,
Television,
The Birthday Party,
Lindisfarne,
Liliput,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Idris Muhammad,
Q65,
Gregory Isaacs,
Quando Quango,
The Human League,
Basic Channel,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Peter and Kerry,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Patti Smith,
Scientists,
Scott Walker,
Don Cherry,
ABC,
The Leaves,
The Gories,
Gang Starr,
Lightning Bolt,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Drexciya,
The United States of America,
Unwound,
Traffic Nightmare,
Con Funk Shun,
This Heat,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.