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 St Lucia and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Alison Limerick to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Detroit Cobras. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
Crash Course in Science,
Cal Tjader,
ABBA,
The Victims,
Sister Nancy,
Index,
The Grass Roots,
Eric Dolphy,
A Certain Ratio,
Japan,
The Wake,
Neil Young,
Los Fastidios,
The Mummies,
Darondo,
Joensuu 1685,
Idris Muhammad,
Scott Walker,
Zapp,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Slackers,
Todd Rundgren,
Junior Murvin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Monolake,
Kayak,
Duran Duran,
Ralphi Rosario,
Maurizio,
Animal Collective,
Boogie Down Productions,
ABC,
48th St. Collective,
The Smoke,
Moebius,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Amon Düül II,
Cecil Taylor,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Real Kids,
Outsiders,
Goldenarms,
Average White Band,
Wasted Youth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
World's Most,
Brass Construction,
Lalann,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joe Smooth,
cv313,
The Kinks,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ohio Players,
Arthur Verocai,
Erykah Badu,
Parry Music,
Boredoms,
Funky Four + One,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.