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 Botswana and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sun Ra to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Alarm Clocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 spring reverb and a guitar 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 guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Kayak,
David Axelrod,
Main Source,
Sister Nancy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
John Coltrane,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
8 Eyed Spy,
Lakeside,
Stereo Dub,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Yellowson,
Index,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
the Association,
Brand Nubian,
The Count Five,
Rapeman,
Quadrant,
Country Teasers,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Mojo Men,
PIL,
Kaleidoscope,
Wasted Youth,
Lee Hazlewood,
Schoolly D,
Youth Brigade,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bad Manners,
Faust,
Traffic Nightmare,
Brick,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gregory Isaacs,
Newcleus,
New Age Steppers,
Derrick Morgan,
Kas Product,
Archie Shepp,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pierre Henry,
The Fugs,
Sällskapet,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Interpol,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rotary Connection,
Sight & Sound,
The J.B.'s,
The Gap Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Tubeway Army,
Aaron Thompson,
Pharoah Sanders,
10cc,
The Index,
Television,
Johnny Clarke,
Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia, Arcadia.
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.