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 Tuvalu and from Tehran.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
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 Hasil Adkins to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deadbeat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
These Immortal Souls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Gun Club,
Godley & Creme,
F. McDonald,
Bluetip,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Happenings,
John Foxx,
Motorama,
The Golliwogs,
Black Bananas,
Minutemen,
Model 500,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gang Starr,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camouflage,
Pagans,
Wolf Eyes,
The Trojans,
Franke,
Sexual Harrassment,
Mandrill,
Scion,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Knickerbockers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Morten Harket,
Ralphi Rosario,
Barbara Tucker,
Pantaleimon,
Matthew Halsall,
The Durutti Column,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ossler,
Bill Near,
Kerri Chandler,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Television,
Ronan,
Crime,
Jandek,
Lucky Dragons,
Alice Coltrane,
Sandy B,
Little Man,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kerrie Biddell,
Bootsy Collins,
Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7, Scan 7.
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.