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 Seychelles and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 organ 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 The Gories to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.
All The American Breed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
DJ Sneak,
The Raincoats,
Television,
Jawbox,
Banda Bassotti,
Brass Construction,
48th St. Collective,
Letta Mbulu,
L. Decosne,
Sällskapet,
John Lydon,
Wings,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
OOIOO,
Quadrant,
The Moleskins,
Stockholm Monsters,
Das Ding,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Real Kids,
Barclay James Harvest,
Junior Murvin,
Stiv Bators,
Bobby Byrd,
ABBA,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Blues Magoos,
Joe Finger,
Piero Umiliani,
Mars,
Lower 48,
Jacob Miller,
Warren Ellis,
Albert Ayler,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Fluxion,
JFA,
Erasure,
Bobby Sherman,
David McCallum,
Sister Nancy,
The Selecter,
Cecil Taylor,
Graham Central Station,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Chris & Cosey,
Brothers Johnson,
The Skatalites,
Crash Course in Science,
kango's stein massive,
Cameo,
Excepter,
Robert Wyatt,
DJ Style,
Masters at Work,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Happenings,
Andrew Hill,
Todd Rundgren,
Massinfluence,
Grauzone,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.