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 Switzerland and from Spokane.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Bill Wells to the crunk 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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Iggy Pop record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Adolescents,
the Soft Cell,
Country Teasers,
John Cale,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dark Day,
Marvin Gaye,
Funky Four + One,
Todd Terry,
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Sherman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bush Tetras,
Thee Headcoats,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eden Ahbez,
The Cowsills,
The Raincoats,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
David McCallum,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rod Modell,
June of 44,
Average White Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ponytail,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lightning Bolt,
Matthew Halsall,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Nico,
kango's stein massive,
The Mojo Men,
Arthur Verocai,
Flash Fearless,
Agitation Free,
Peter and Kerry,
Fluxion,
Scott Walker,
cv313,
Cluster,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lou Christie,
Lou Reed,
Susan Cadogan,
Aural Exciters,
The Standells,
Grauzone,
Moebius,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Crime,
Pulsallama,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Last Poets,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Amon Düül II,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.