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 Grenada and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Seeds to the jazz 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fifty Foot Hose record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Motions,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Anthony Braxton,
David Axelrod,
Wings,
Bizarre Inc.,
Moss Icon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Barracudas,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Public Enemy,
The Slackers,
Dark Day,
Sonic Youth,
Tim Buckley,
In Retrospect,
Amazonics,
Mantronix,
Donald Byrd,
Jesper Dahlback,
Skriet,
Duran Duran,
Sam Rivers,
Bobby Hutcherson,
X-102,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mission of Burma,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Shadows of Knight,
The J.B.'s,
Banda Bassotti,
JFA,
Lindisfarne,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crash Course in Science,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Scott Walker,
Boz Scaggs,
The Happenings,
Fort Wilson Riot,
CMW,
Make Up,
Neu!,
Amon Düül,
kango's stein massive,
Procol Harum,
Eden Ahbez,
Sight & Sound,
Talk Talk,
Grey Daturas,
Soulsonic Force,
Monolake,
Radiohead,
Roxette,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Deepchord,
Barrington Levy,
Throbbing Gristle,
World's Most,
Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis, Alton Ellis.
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.