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 Finland and from Bologna.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 marimba 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 Birthday Party to the crunk 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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Youth Brigade,
Eric Copeland,
Terry Callier,
the Slits,
Godley & Creme,
Fatback Band,
Hoover,
Sun Ra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Index,
Gregory Isaacs,
Khruangbin,
Reuben Wilson,
Lungfish,
The Fortunes,
Jacques Brel,
Pantytec,
The Litter,
Warren Ellis,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Yazoo,
Average White Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Malaria!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gladiators,
Isaac Hayes,
Delta 5,
Fluxion,
Charles Mingus,
Darondo,
Alice Coltrane,
Rod Modell,
Deepchord,
The Durutti Column,
Mad Mike,
Lou Reed,
T. Rex,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Holt,
Sight & Sound,
Quadrant,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hardrive,
The Offenders,
The Moody Blues,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Mo-Dettes,
The Misunderstood,
These Immortal Souls,
Roxy Music,
Pere Ubu,
Skarface,
Cameo,
Connie Case,
John Lydon,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Jeff Mills,
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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.