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 Nicaragua and from Columbus.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the oboe 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 New Order to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All The Leaves tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vladislav Delay record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Grass Roots,
Marvin Gaye,
Saccharine Trust,
Fugazi,
The Evens,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
E-Dancer,
Todd Terry,
Sister Nancy,
Sam Rivers,
Camberwell Now,
Ten City,
Bobby Byrd,
New Age Steppers,
Brand Nubian,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Swans,
Slave,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Country Teasers,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Newcleus,
Mark Hollis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lalann,
Rotary Connection,
R.M.O.,
It's A Beautiful Day,
L. Decosne,
The Gun Club,
Lightning Bolt,
ABC,
Pantaleimon,
Pierre Henry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Swell Maps,
John Coltrane,
Blancmange,
Barry Ungar,
Scientists,
Faust,
Tres Demented,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Erykah Badu,
Patti Smith,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Shuggie Otis,
Fear,
Graham Central Station,
Jesper Dahlback,
Amon Düül II,
Pharoah Sanders,
Cymande,
10cc,
Fat Boys,
Gerry Rafferty,
Radio Birdman,
Neu!,
Chris & Cosey,
Andrew Hill,
The Cure,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.