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 Chad and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 rhodes 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blake Baxter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Chris & Cosey,
Crispian St. Peters,
Stetsasonic,
the Human League,
Scientists,
One Last Wish,
Skriet,
Zero Boys,
Brand Nubian,
Main Source,
Ronan,
The Walker Brothers,
Delta 5,
Juan Atkins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Erasure,
The Neon Judgement,
Drive Like Jehu,
Aloha Tigers,
D'Angelo,
Jimmy McGriff,
Blossom Toes,
Skaos,
The Mummies,
China Crisis,
Janne Schatter,
Fluxion,
Rufus Thomas,
The Golliwogs,
Parry Music,
Ultra Naté,
Scott Walker,
Freddie Wadling,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Negative Approach,
Essential Logic,
Nico,
Harry Pussy,
The Standells,
Darondo,
The Cowsills,
Jandek,
The Trojans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Q65,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Rotary Connection,
Lebanon Hanover,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
KRS-One,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Little Man,
Desert Stars,
Arthur Verocai,
Moby Grape,
Mo-Dettes,
Lindisfarne,
Lyres,
Qualms,
Heaven 17,
Animal Collective,
Carl Craig,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.