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 South Africa and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the disco 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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Vladislav Delay 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin 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 oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Freddie Wadling,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Soul II Soul,
Andrew Hill,
Hasil Adkins,
Grey Daturas,
Archie Shepp,
Scrapy,
Aloha Tigers,
Warren Ellis,
Scion,
The Divine Comedy,
Sugar Minott,
In Retrospect,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sister Nancy,
Bobby Byrd,
Yellowson,
Basic Channel,
Groovy Waters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ronan,
MC5,
Ultravox,
Popol Vuh,
Boredoms,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Essential Logic,
Radiohead,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
K-Klass,
Roger Hodgson,
The Gories,
Silicon Teens,
Cecil Taylor,
Colin Newman,
Tomorrow,
Sixth Finger,
The New Christs,
These Immortal Souls,
The Young Rascals,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Delta 5,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Radio Birdman,
Vainqueur,
A Certain Ratio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mantronix,
Smog,
Thompson Twins,
Unrelated Segments,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Jimmy McGriff,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Zeros,
DJ Style,
Magma,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.