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 Algeria and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Jakarta and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Charles Mingus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
Skarface,
Glenn Branca,
Kaleidoscope,
Vladislav Delay,
Radiopuhelimet,
Judy Mowatt,
Suicide,
Shuggie Otis,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Neil Young,
Boogie Down Productions,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Anthony Braxton,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Silicon Teens,
Brand Nubian,
Graham Central Station,
LL Cool J,
The Beau Brummels,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
China Crisis,
Soft Machine,
The Vogues,
48th St. Collective,
Eden Ahbez,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ronan,
Harry Pussy,
Amon Düül,
The Birthday Party,
John Holt,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scan 7,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Flash Fearless,
Groovy Waters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Foxx,
Connie Case,
Bobby Byrd,
Chris & Cosey,
Colin Newman,
Cameo,
Popol Vuh,
Gong,
Bobby Sherman,
Adolescents,
Negative Approach,
Tommy Roe,
Piero Umiliani,
Swans,
Youth Brigade,
Eli Mardock,
Barrington Levy,
Johnny Clarke,
The Busters,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.