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 Lithuania and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 Lille and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grunge 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 The Detroit Cobras. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Sarah Menescal,
Cybotron,
The Litter,
Section 25,
The Skatalites,
Skriet,
Delta 5,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The United States of America,
E-Dancer,
The Dave Clark Five,
Gang Green,
These Immortal Souls,
Delon & Dalcan,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Charles Mingus,
Fluxion,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Skarface,
Wolf Eyes,
Clear Light,
Dorothy Ashby,
New York Dolls,
Cal Tjader,
World's Most,
Monks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
the Bar-Kays,
Duran Duran,
Inner City,
The Moody Blues,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sun Ra,
Monolake,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pylon,
Tears for Fears,
Altered Images,
Danielle Patucci,
Sun City Girls,
Nick Fraelich,
the Soft Cell,
The Busters,
The Raincoats,
Zapp,
The Misunderstood,
Model 500,
Grey Daturas,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pagans,
Lucky Dragons,
T. Rex,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Slits,
Maleditus Sound,
KRS-One,
Rod Modell,
Kurtis Blow,
Hardrive,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.