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 Mozambique and from London.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 X-102 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott Heron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
The Saints,
The Divine Comedy,
Lindisfarne,
Don Cherry,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scion,
Deepchord,
David McCallum,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Scott Walker,
KRS-One,
Adolescents,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Absolute Body Control,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sound Behaviour,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jeff Mills,
The Index,
The Sonics,
Mr. Review,
Alice Coltrane,
Mars,
Minny Pops,
Sparks,
Tomorrow,
The Sisters of Mercy,
X-102,
World's Most,
The Litter,
Country Teasers,
Ponytail,
The Smoke,
MC5,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Wings,
Aswad,
Delta 5,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kerri Chandler,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Neu!,
Wolf Eyes,
Althea and Donna,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Vogues,
Roy Ayers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Von Mondo,
Desert Stars,
Scientists,
The Cure,
The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs, The Golliwogs.
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.