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 Panama and from Johannesburg.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Robert Hood 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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All The Beau Brummels tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heaven 17,
Goldenarms,
Absolute Body Control,
Dennis Brown,
Roy Ayers,
The Trojans,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Flipper,
Letta Mbulu,
Supertramp,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Skatalites,
The Offenders,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rufus Thomas,
Bush Tetras,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Cameo,
Blake Baxter,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Shoche,
Harry Pussy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Carl Craig,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Q65,
Jawbox,
Wasted Youth,
The Monochrome Set,
Severed Heads,
Johnny Clarke,
The Mummies,
June of 44,
Soft Cell,
Black Moon,
B.T. Express,
Aswad,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Divine Comedy,
Monolake,
Vladislav Delay,
Ossler,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lightning Bolt,
Deakin,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Brand Nubian,
Erykah Badu,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bootsy Collins,
Traffic Nightmare,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Monks,
Crime,
Donny Hathaway,
The Walker Brothers,
Skriet,
John Cale,
Peter & Gordon,
The Pop Group,
Isaac Hayes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.