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 Dominican Republic and from Houston.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 clarinet 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 Fall to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Arab on Radar,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Byron Stingily,
The Fortunes,
Monolake,
Ralphi Rosario,
Black Pus,
Arcadia,
Quadrant,
the Association,
David Axelrod,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cure,
Zapp,
Flash Fearless,
Man Eating Sloth,
Absolute Body Control,
Eden Ahbez,
Sly & The Family Stone,
H. Thieme,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Average White Band,
Fad Gadget,
Shuggie Otis,
Swans,
Cecil Taylor,
Y Pants,
The Litter,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Silicon Teens,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Mummies,
Fat Boys,
Faraquet,
Nas,
Laurel Aitken,
The Real Kids,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Funkadelic,
Rapeman,
Crash Course in Science,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
June of 44,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lakeside,
LL Cool J,
Von Mondo,
Soft Machine,
R.M.O.,
Althea and Donna,
Pylon,
Gabor Szabo,
John Lydon,
Sugar Minott,
Banda Bassotti,
The Kinks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Index,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.