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 Mumbai.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Lalann to the grime 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 The Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
The Dave Clark Five,
T. Rex,
Erasure,
Talk Talk,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Neil Young,
a-ha,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Peter and Kerry,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Monks,
Q and Not U,
The Pop Group,
Second Layer,
Unrelated Segments,
Donald Byrd,
Thee Headcoats,
Black Moon,
Quando Quango,
New Age Steppers,
Shoche,
Roxette,
Rapeman,
Josef K,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Searchers,
Infiniti,
Kerri Chandler,
Grey Daturas,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Anthony Braxton,
Donny Hathaway,
Todd Rundgren,
Sarah Menescal,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Cowsills,
Joe Smooth,
Rekid,
The Saints,
Black Sheep,
Japan,
Black Flag,
X-101,
Goldenarms,
The Skatalites,
Swell Maps,
Albert Ayler,
The Remains,
Erykah Badu,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mars,
Hashim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deepchord,
Alison Limerick,
Electric Prunes,
Jacques Brel,
Glenn Branca,
Buzzcocks,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.