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 Qatar and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin 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 Lindisfarne to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABC,
Soul II Soul,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Unwound,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scott Walker,
Carl Craig,
Roxy Music,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Masters at Work,
The American Breed,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Wally Richardson,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Reuben Wilson,
Fad Gadget,
Mission of Burma,
Sound Behaviour,
Lower 48,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Suburban Knight,
Leonard Cohen,
Ultra Naté,
Scratch Acid,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Tremeloes,
Rhythm & Sound,
David Axelrod,
Lungfish,
The Move,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Gladiators,
Tomorrow,
Amon Düül II,
Jeff Lynne,
Cybotron,
Zapp,
The Music Machine,
Graham Central Station,
Aswad,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
MC5,
The Mummies,
Section 25,
Thee Headcoats,
Brick,
D'Angelo,
Faraquet,
Bobby Womack,
Adolescents,
Althea and Donna,
E-Dancer,
Junior Murvin,
The Associates,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Velvet Underground,
Arcadia,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.