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 Saudi Arabia 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
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 Boredoms to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Quando Quango. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mars 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Von Mondo,
Lakeside,
Moebius,
The Monochrome Set,
kango's stein massive,
The Kinks,
Swell Maps,
The Gap Band,
Japan,
Buzzcocks,
Avey Tare,
The Seeds,
Porter Ricks,
Lindisfarne,
Accadde A,
The J.B.'s,
Fugazi,
Derrick May,
Black Flag,
Drive Like Jehu,
Jimmy McGriff,
Traffic Nightmare,
Deepchord,
Matthew Halsall,
Deakin,
Blancmange,
The Pop Group,
The Neon Judgement,
The Selecter,
The Dirtbombs,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bill Wells,
DNA,
Michelle Simonal,
Johnny Osbourne,
Maleditus Sound,
The Zeros,
Aswad,
Clear Light,
Boredoms,
Country Joe & The Fish,
B.T. Express,
Jawbox,
PIL,
Robert Wyatt,
Gabor Szabo,
The American Breed,
Bauhaus,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Walker Brothers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sarah Menescal,
Alphaville,
Junior Murvin,
Juan Atkins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
T.S.O.L.,
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.