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 Antigua and from Paris.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Little Man to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Loose Ends. All the underground hits.
All Anthony Braxton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Junior Murvin 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lebanon Hanover,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
E-Dancer,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Moleskins,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Loose Ends,
Joy Division,
Pere Ubu,
The Red Krayola,
Amon Düül II,
Yellowson,
Freddie Wadling,
The Stooges,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Unwound,
Pagans,
the Germs,
Livin' Joy,
Ten City,
Urselle,
Kool Moe Dee,
PIL,
The Beau Brummels,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yazoo,
Radiohead,
Avey Tare,
Symarip,
Ludus,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Brick,
cv313,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Sonics,
Heaven 17,
Mission of Burma,
Black Moon,
Funky Four + One,
The Cramps,
Gang Gang Dance,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pharoah Sanders,
Hot Snakes,
Motorama,
Silicon Teens,
The United States of America,
Altered Images,
Franke,
In Retrospect,
The Fortunes,
The Gladiators,
The Vogues,
Scott Walker,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Bobby Byrd,
the Slits,
Sound Behaviour,
Television Personalities,
Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson.
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.