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 Serbia and from Mumbai.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Alice Coltrane to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a James Chance & The Contortions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minutemen,
Avey Tare,
Nirvana,
the Normal,
Eurythmics,
The Shadows of Knight,
Oneida,
Das Ding,
The Cure,
Archie Shepp,
Soul II Soul,
Ice-T,
Gang of Four,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
X-102,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Big Daddy Kane,
Public Image Ltd.,
AZ,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
X-101,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Delta 5,
Terrestrial Tones,
Matthew Halsall,
The Count Five,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
D'Angelo,
Kaleidoscope,
The Sound,
Wally Richardson,
Suicide,
Laurel Aitken,
X-Ray Spex,
Ultravox,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Bill Near,
Johnny Clarke,
Banda Bassotti,
Michelle Simonal,
Tomorrow,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Organ,
The Leaves,
Charles Mingus,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Gun Club,
The Red Krayola,
DJ Style,
Amon Düül,
CMW,
Maurizio,
In Retrospect,
Public Enemy,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Freddie Wadling,
Soulsonic Force,
The Last Poets,
Ten City,
The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed, The American Breed.
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.