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 Thailand and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb 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 The Buckinghams to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Bang on a Can All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Men They Couldn't Hang record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
The Gories,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nico,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sonny Sharrock,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bobby Byrd,
New Order,
Scrapy,
Jawbox,
Soulsonic Force,
Stereo Dub,
Archie Shepp,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Offenders,
Kenny Larkin,
The United States of America,
Trumans Water,
PIL,
Swans,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Average White Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Q and Not U,
Scott Walker,
Funkadelic,
The Invisible,
Funky Four + One,
Wolf Eyes,
Todd Rundgren,
Skriet,
Dual Sessions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Avey Tare,
Banda Bassotti,
R.M.O.,
The Residents,
cv313,
Roger Hodgson,
Siglo XX,
Deakin,
The Mojo Men,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bluetip,
Marvin Gaye,
Mandrill,
Robert Görl,
a-ha,
Chrome,
Fat Boys,
Pantaleimon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Scratch Acid,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Intrusion,
Gang Starr,
DJ Sneak,
Organ,
Fela Kuti,
Josef K,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Easy Going,
D'Angelo,
Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe, Tommy Roe.
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.