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 Papua New Guinea and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Hoover to the dance 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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeru the Damaja,
Rufus Thomas,
the Normal,
Ralphi Rosario,
Drexciya,
The Misunderstood,
These Immortal Souls,
Peter & Gordon,
Pulsallama,
CMW,
Maurizio,
Black Flag,
MC5,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Gladiators,
The Selecter,
Kenny Larkin,
Sound Behaviour,
Main Source,
Young Marble Giants,
Bill Wells,
the Swans,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Matthew Bourne,
Rotary Connection,
Flipper,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Fugs,
Derrick May,
Sun Ra,
Eli Mardock,
Subhumans,
Delta 5,
Mary Jane Girls,
Prince Buster,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Robert Wyatt,
Max Romeo,
Franke,
Gil Scott Heron,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Little Man,
Yaz,
Country Teasers,
Das Ding,
Banda Bassotti,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Barrington Levy,
Soulsonic Force,
The Wake,
Ultravox,
Sly & The Family Stone,
cv313,
Soul II Soul,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Durutti Column,
Cecil Taylor,
Laurel Aitken,
The Grass Roots,
X-102,
Zapp,
Boredoms,
The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques, The Techniques.
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.