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 Peru and from Jakarta.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hasil Adkins to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Desert Stars 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nas,
Albert Ayler,
Funky Four + One,
Flipper,
Nico,
Glenn Branca,
Kevin Saunderson,
David Axelrod,
Khruangbin,
Sight & Sound,
T. Rex,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
EPMD,
The Selecter,
The Seeds,
Parry Music,
Accadde A,
The Doors,
Wally Richardson,
Gang of Four,
Babytalk,
Desert Stars,
The Misunderstood,
Rites of Spring,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Infiniti,
Terrestrial Tones,
Schoolly D,
Erykah Badu,
The Trojans,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Velvet Underground,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Symarip,
Sound Behaviour,
Janne Schatter,
Brick,
10cc,
Davy DMX,
DJ Style,
Young Marble Giants,
Visage,
Roxy Music,
Isaac Hayes,
The Mummies,
Idris Muhammad,
Can,
Matthew Bourne,
Sister Nancy,
Popol Vuh,
Yusef Lateef,
The Invisible,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Dawn Penn,
Matthew Halsall,
Spandau Ballet,
Thee Headcoats,
The Shadows of Knight,
FM Einheit,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Technova,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.