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 Australia and from Tokyo.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Hardrive to the crunk 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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.
All Ken Boothe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Trumans Water record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kaleidoscope,
Symarip,
Kayak,
Sight & Sound,
Faust,
Radiohead,
The Smoke,
The Dead C,
Tears for Fears,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sugar Minott,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Cowsills,
Pantaleimon,
Altered Images,
Mo-Dettes,
Tropical Tobacco,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Eric Copeland,
the Soft Cell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Mantronix,
Grey Daturas,
The Fall,
Khruangbin,
Albert Ayler,
John Holt,
Todd Rundgren,
Au Pairs,
Gang of Four,
The Alarm Clocks,
10cc,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ossler,
Dennis Brown,
LL Cool J,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bad Manners,
Pole,
Motorama,
Cal Tjader,
AZ,
Stereo Dub,
Monolake,
Soft Machine,
The Seeds,
Malaria!,
Absolute Body Control,
Circle Jerks,
Roy Ayers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Cheater Slicks,
The Fortunes,
Jawbox,
MDC,
Darondo,
David Bowie,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Blossom Toes,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.