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 Congo and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Eric Dolphy to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Golliwogs 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
The Fall,
Blancmange,
Agitation Free,
Deepchord,
The Move,
The Moleskins,
Fat Boys,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
JFA,
Pere Ubu,
Boredoms,
The Pop Group,
The Smiths,
Alton Ellis,
The Raincoats,
L. Decosne,
Public Image Ltd.,
Skaos,
Bauhaus,
H. Thieme,
Guru Guru,
Talk Talk,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Yazoo,
John Foxx,
The Motions,
The Music Machine,
CMW,
Warren Ellis,
Grauzone,
Boogie Down Productions,
Depeche Mode,
8 Eyed Spy,
Dennis Brown,
The Standells,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Roxette,
Crime,
the Soft Cell,
Duran Duran,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Mantronix,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lightning Bolt,
Fear,
Symarip,
Ohio Players,
Hardrive,
Pantytec,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bobby Byrd,
Bush Tetras,
The Knickerbockers,
Janne Schatter,
Grey Daturas,
The Fugs,
Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith.
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.