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 Vietnam and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Drexciya to the grime 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 Amon Düül. All the underground hits.
All Dorothy Ashby tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wolf Eyes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Graham Central Station,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Zero Boys,
Johnny Osbourne,
Essential Logic,
OOIOO,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Fire Engines,
Surgeon,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
T.S.O.L.,
Rhythm & Sound,
Terry Callier,
Clear Light,
Cluster,
Wally Richardson,
Ronnie Foster,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ronan,
Buzzcocks,
Crash Course in Science,
Gang of Four,
Pulsallama,
Lakeside,
These Immortal Souls,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crooked Eye,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fela Kuti,
Pantaleimon,
K-Klass,
The Slits,
The Star Department,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jesper Dahlback,
Flash Fearless,
L. Decosne,
Au Pairs,
The Dead C,
Robert Görl,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Last Poets,
EPMD,
Babytalk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tomorrow,
Junior Murvin,
Ten City,
E-Dancer,
Eric Dolphy,
The Standells,
Oneida,
Little Man,
Alice Coltrane,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lyres,
The Victims,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.