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 Estonia and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Rhythm & Sound to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Michelle Simonal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Liliput,
Goldenarms,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Smiths,
Model 500,
Flash Fearless,
Jawbox,
Outsiders,
Q and Not U,
Carl Craig,
Gang Gang Dance,
Simply Red,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Procol Harum,
Television,
Joensuu 1685,
Fela Kuti,
The Shadows of Knight,
Blancmange,
Neil Young,
Negative Approach,
Swell Maps,
Tommy Roe,
Minnie Riperton,
Dennis Brown,
The Pretty Things,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Crooked Eye,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
DJ Sneak,
Drexciya,
The Gun Club,
cv313,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Boogie Down Productions,
The American Breed,
Hasil Adkins,
Junior Murvin,
Kurtis Blow,
Jesper Dahlback,
Sugar Minott,
The Raincoats,
Arcadia,
Flamin' Groovies,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mars,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gong,
Byron Stingily,
Zero Boys,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Blues Magoos,
Nas,
Massinfluence,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Pop Group,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.