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 Cyprus and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
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 Moss Icon 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 EPMD. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Cybotron,
Vladislav Delay,
Fugazi,
The Birthday Party,
Darondo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Agent Orange,
Popol Vuh,
Mo-Dettes,
Blancmange,
The Red Krayola,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Pantytec,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Blackbyrds,
The New Christs,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Music Machine,
Minny Pops,
Boredoms,
Japan,
Lou Christie,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ornette Coleman,
Jandek,
Isaac Hayes,
Audionom,
K-Klass,
Barry Ungar,
The Cramps,
The Monochrome Set,
Marvin Gaye,
AZ,
Nik Kershaw,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Funky Four + One,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Germs,
The Motions,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Howard Jones,
Jeff Lynne,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
10cc,
Soul Sonic Force,
LL Cool J,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Moody Blues,
Toni Rubio,
Lalann,
Essential Logic,
Adolescents,
Connie Case,
Gichy Dan,
Prince Buster,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Wake, The Wake, The Wake, The Wake.
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.