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 Tonga and from Tehran.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 rhodes 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arcadia record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Neon Judgement,
Altered Images,
Alton Ellis,
Bobby Byrd,
D'Angelo,
Hashim,
Negative Approach,
cv313,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wally Richardson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Swans,
Soft Machine,
Jandek,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Fat Boys,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Joey Negro,
Brick,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sight & Sound,
EPMD,
David Bowie,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Swell Maps,
Tom Boy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Television Personalities,
Radio Birdman,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Electric Prunes,
Aural Exciters,
Yaz,
Theoretical Girls,
Idris Muhammad,
The Victims,
The Flesh Eaters,
Agitation Free,
Joy Division,
Rotary Connection,
Sandy B,
Wolf Eyes,
Sexual Harrassment,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Livin' Joy,
Anthony Braxton,
The Velvet Underground,
Jeff Mills,
Eric Copeland,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Johnny Osbourne,
Suburban Knight,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Cure,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Con Funk Shun,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.