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 Azerbaijan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Oneida to the disco 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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Loose Ends 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 a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lungfish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Style,
Fela Kuti,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Nation of Ulysses,
Faraquet,
Youth Brigade,
Parry Music,
Marine Girls,
Aloha Tigers,
Altered Images,
Organ,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sällskapet,
Dawn Penn,
Letta Mbulu,
The Toasters,
Byron Stingily,
Ronan,
Amon Düül,
Lebanon Hanover,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Terrestrial Tones,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Excepter,
The Techniques,
Lower 48,
Cluster,
Hoover,
The Raincoats,
Visage,
the Bar-Kays,
Pantaleimon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Fad Gadget,
The Grass Roots,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Albert Ayler,
Bizarre Inc.,
Charles Mingus,
Sugar Minott,
The Skatalites,
Ken Boothe,
Easy Going,
The Evens,
Public Image Ltd.,
Blake Baxter,
Glambeats Corp.,
Deepchord,
KRS-One,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Surgeon,
Nirvana,
Pet Shop Boys,
CMW,
OOIOO,
The Misunderstood,
Eric Dolphy,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.