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 Kazakhstan and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Notorious Big And Bone Thugs to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gerry Rafferty. All the underground hits.
All Ultravox tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every AZ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang on a Can All-Stars 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?
F. McDonald,
Flash Fearless,
Sun Ra,
Carl Craig,
Adolescents,
Tomorrow,
Lou Reed,
Excepter,
Jacques Brel,
Section 25,
Pole,
Magazine,
Aural Exciters,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sonic Youth,
Lalann,
Intrusion,
Goldenarms,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Rhythm & Sound,
LL Cool J,
New Age Steppers,
Althea and Donna,
David Bowie,
10cc,
the Slits,
Skriet,
Animal Collective,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dave Gahan,
Moss Icon,
Black Flag,
Main Source,
Can,
Joensuu 1685,
Panda Bear,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Piero Umiliani,
Theoretical Girls,
Kurtis Blow,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Stockholm Monsters,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eve St. Jones,
Nick Fraelich,
Stereo Dub,
Kerrie Biddell,
T. Rex,
Gang Gang Dance,
World's Most,
Glenn Branca,
Blancmange,
U.S. Maple,
MC5,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Camberwell Now,
Suburban Knight,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
John Coltrane,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.