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 Montenegro 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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the theremin 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 Jandek to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gong record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Basic Channel,
Motorama,
Circle Jerks,
Radio Birdman,
Joyce Sims,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Swell Maps,
Japan,
Gastr Del Sol,
Johnny Osbourne,
Fela Kuti,
Arab on Radar,
Cybotron,
The Velvet Underground,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
MDC,
Pulsallama,
The Skatalites,
Kerri Chandler,
Tres Demented,
Slave,
The Victims,
Magma,
Bootsy Collins,
Sister Nancy,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Danielle Patucci,
The Associates,
The Gories,
La Düsseldorf,
Lakeside,
Buzzcocks,
Main Source,
Ponytail,
Jerry's Kids,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Alton Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Von Mondo,
F. McDonald,
Dave Gahan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boogie Down Productions,
Country Teasers,
Fear,
Faraquet,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fluxion,
Reuben Wilson,
Susan Cadogan,
Marine Girls,
Gabor Szabo,
Eden Ahbez,
Rapeman,
Panda Bear,
kango's stein massive,
Drexciya,
Pussy Galore,
Pole,
Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio, Maurizio.
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.