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 Argentina and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the güiro 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 Scott Walker to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispian St. Peters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
John Coltrane,
Tim Buckley,
kango's stein massive,
Robert Hood,
Television Personalities,
The Selecter,
The Residents,
The Barracudas,
Section 25,
Goldenarms,
Minnie Riperton,
Letta Mbulu,
Joy Division,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jandek,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gerry Rafferty,
Black Sheep,
The Doobie Brothers,
Derrick Morgan,
MC5,
Icehouse,
Can,
Freddie Wadling,
Maleditus Sound,
Delta 5,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Bush Tetras,
China Crisis,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bad Manners,
EPMD,
Animal Collective,
Yaz,
Procol Harum,
The Invisible,
Soulsonic Force,
Morten Harket,
Rosa Yemen,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sparks,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rekid,
Jawbox,
Tears for Fears,
Niagra,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bluetip,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Holt,
Thompson Twins,
Half Japanese,
Qualms,
Rod Modell,
This Heat,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
JFA, JFA, JFA, JFA.
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.