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 Qatar and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin 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 Jandek to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sound. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow 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 an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scion,
Kevin Saunderson,
Black Moon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lightning Bolt,
Eric Dolphy,
The Divine Comedy,
Anakelly,
Unwound,
Dual Sessions,
Joe Finger,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bill Wells,
Scientists,
the Bar-Kays,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ultra Naté,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Popol Vuh,
Depeche Mode,
Groovy Waters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Joensuu 1685,
Wasted Youth,
Pulsallama,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bootsy Collins,
Deepchord,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Charles Mingus,
The Cramps,
Scrapy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gabor Szabo,
Sandy B,
Freddie Wadling,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Moss Icon,
LL Cool J,
Hoover,
Deadbeat,
Scott Walker,
Section 25,
Echospace,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Techniques,
Todd Rundgren,
The J.B.'s,
Robert Wyatt,
B.T. Express,
Quando Quango,
Quantec,
Soulsonic Force,
The Dead C,
The Walker Brothers,
Animal Collective,
Absolute Body Control,
Youth Brigade,
Wings,
Aswad,
The Gladiators,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.