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 Guyana and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 marimba 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 Motions to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Television Personalities tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ 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 organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lalo Schifrin,
The Smiths,
The Velvet Underground,
The Move,
Television Personalities,
Jeff Lynne,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kerri Chandler,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ituana,
Chris Corsano,
Severed Heads,
F. McDonald,
Bill Wells,
Lungfish,
Tim Buckley,
China Crisis,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marshall Jefferson,
Suburban Knight,
Fat Boys,
Roger Hodgson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gang Green,
Alphaville,
Gichy Dan,
Bill Near,
Y Pants,
Amon Düül II,
Bobby Byrd,
Pussy Galore,
Lightning Bolt,
KRS-One,
Skriet,
Das Ding,
Gong,
Jeru the Damaja,
Steve Hackett,
Lakeside,
The Cure,
Aswad,
Lalann,
L. Decosne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Organ,
Mr. Review,
Brothers Johnson,
Inner City,
A Certain Ratio,
Anthony Braxton,
Second Layer,
John Foxx,
Rhythm & Sound,
Silicon Teens,
The Fuzztones,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gang of Four,
The Slackers,
LL Cool J,
Unwound,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Roxy Music,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.