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 Poland and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Hong Kong.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Shoche to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Tres Demented. All the underground hits.
All The Skatalites tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Five Americans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
Wire,
Absolute Body Control,
The Selecter,
Swans,
Pierre Henry,
Television Personalities,
Alton Ellis,
Idris Muhammad,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mo-Dettes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eddi Front,
10cc,
Pulsallama,
This Heat,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Grass Roots,
Blossom Toes,
Warsaw,
The Raincoats,
Pantaleimon,
David Bowie,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tears for Fears,
Lalo Schifrin,
Panda Bear,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Vainqueur,
The Gories,
Alice Coltrane,
Deakin,
Gang Gang Dance,
Reagan Youth,
The Sound,
Cymande,
Jeff Mills,
The Names,
Fela Kuti,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Arcadia,
Yazoo,
Saccharine Trust,
The Tremeloes,
Nas,
The Smiths,
The Buckinghams,
Camberwell Now,
The Misunderstood,
Pere Ubu,
Soft Cell,
Mandrill,
Bobby Byrd,
AZ,
The Neon Judgement,
Vladislav Delay,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mars,
Jandek, Jandek, Jandek, Jandek.
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.