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 Senegal and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 Echospace to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes 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 güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Leonard Cohen,
PIL,
Mo-Dettes,
Chris & Cosey,
Alison Limerick,
X-102,
Monks,
Basic Channel,
Ultimate Spinach,
Barry Ungar,
Rod Modell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Connie Case,
Kaleidoscope,
The Alarm Clocks,
Popol Vuh,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Howard Jones,
Average White Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
This Heat,
CMW,
Supertramp,
Organ,
Young Marble Giants,
Tim Buckley,
Bill Wells,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Q and Not U,
Siglo XX,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Television,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Johnny Osbourne,
Zero Boys,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Mojo Men,
Carl Craig,
MDC,
Livin' Joy,
Magma,
The Blackbyrds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
EPMD,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Grass Roots,
Icehouse,
Blake Baxter,
Gregory Isaacs,
Deadbeat,
F. McDonald,
Ohio Players,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Blues Magoos,
Andrew Hill,
Josef K,
Y Pants,
China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis, China Crisis.
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.