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 Comoros and from Madrid.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Aswad tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobby Sherman,
EPMD,
Pharoah Sanders,
Slave,
Con Funk Shun,
Loose Ends,
Josef K,
Funky Four + One,
Babytalk,
Rufus Thomas,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Associates,
Outsiders,
The Misunderstood,
Fela Kuti,
Monolake,
Alphaville,
Tim Buckley,
The Leaves,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Country Teasers,
Flash Fearless,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sound Behaviour,
Aaron Thompson,
cv313,
Wasted Youth,
Bad Manners,
Sixth Finger,
The Doors,
Erykah Badu,
Youth Brigade,
Jandek,
Soul II Soul,
Black Flag,
Connie Case,
Rakim,
Funkadelic,
Sandy B,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Wake,
Kas Product,
Faraquet,
John Holt,
Robert Wyatt,
X-102,
The Happenings,
David McCallum,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Skaos,
Black Sheep,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Swell Maps,
Ornette Coleman,
Flipper,
Neu!,
Jacob Miller,
Vladislav Delay,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.