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 Kenya and from Hong Kong.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Slits to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Swell Maps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Frankie Knuckles,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bootsy Collins,
James White and The Blacks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Golliwogs,
Morten Harket,
Surgeon,
Chrome,
Urselle,
Sugar Minott,
The Gun Club,
UT,
Fear,
Robert Hood,
Eric Copeland,
Fat Boys,
The Mighty Diamonds,
cv313,
Bob Dylan,
Excepter,
Marvin Gaye,
Deakin,
Joy Division,
Black Flag,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nico,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marshall Jefferson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Basic Channel,
Gichy Dan,
The Smiths,
Kurtis Blow,
Kas Product,
Lightning Bolt,
Khruangbin,
Half Japanese,
Bobby Sherman,
John Lydon,
The Motions,
Whodini,
Procol Harum,
X-102,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Essential Logic,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Five Americans,
The Martian,
Joe Smooth,
Bronski Beat,
Japan,
Gang Green,
The Mojo Men,
Wings,
Arcadia,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mo-Dettes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wire,
Kevin Saunderson,
Throbbing Gristle,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.