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 Armenia and from Hong Kong.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 linndrum 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 Suburban Knight to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu. All the underground hits.
All The Kinks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Underground Resistance 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radio Birdman 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?
The Skatalites,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Faraquet,
FM Einheit,
the Slits,
Blancmange,
Eric Copeland,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Moebius,
Niagra,
Liliput,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Von Mondo,
The Walker Brothers,
Thompson Twins,
Mo-Dettes,
Hashim,
The Misunderstood,
Buzzcocks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Fire Engines,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
AZ,
Idris Muhammad,
Whodini,
Panda Bear,
Altered Images,
Funkadelic,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Star Department,
The Zeros,
DNA,
Gong,
Hasil Adkins,
The Wake,
David McCallum,
The Mummies,
Funky Four + One,
Aaron Thompson,
Rotary Connection,
Freddie Wadling,
The Human League,
Dawn Penn,
Kayak,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Techniques,
Lalann,
Electric Prunes,
The Smiths,
Donny Hathaway,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Underground Resistance,
Rekid,
New Age Steppers,
Kurtis Blow,
Isaac Hayes,
Kas Product,
Maurizio,
Newcleus,
Mark Hollis,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.