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 Niger and from Hong Kong.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
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 Albert Ayler 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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bizarre Inc.,
Public Enemy,
Aural Exciters,
Visage,
Eric Dolphy,
Bauhaus,
Mantronix,
Japan,
Supertramp,
This Heat,
Frankie Knuckles,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
R.M.O.,
Mr. Review,
Popol Vuh,
Erykah Badu,
Altered Images,
Boz Scaggs,
Colin Newman,
Soft Cell,
JFA,
Grandmaster Flash,
Aloha Tigers,
Theoretical Girls,
Isaac Hayes,
Schoolly D,
Funkadelic,
John Foxx,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Association,
Jacob Miller,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lower 48,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Faraquet,
8 Eyed Spy,
AZ,
Donald Byrd,
Jeff Lynne,
Joey Negro,
Mark Hollis,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Slave,
DJ Sneak,
Bill Near,
E-Dancer,
Tommy Roe,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Hardrive,
The New Christs,
Au Pairs,
Yellowson,
The Birthday Party,
Tubeway Army,
Cameo,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Nico,
The Seeds,
Qualms,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stereo Dub,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.