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 Qatar and from Manila.
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 Edmonton and Seoul.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 John Coltrane to the dance 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 Names. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jerry's Kids,
Loose Ends,
Anthony Braxton,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
UT,
the Sonics,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Drive Like Jehu,
Derrick Morgan,
Panda Bear,
Gregory Isaacs,
Boredoms,
Popol Vuh,
DNA,
Interpol,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Blake Baxter,
Minnie Riperton,
Michelle Simonal,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bobby Womack,
Sam Rivers,
The New Christs,
Black Moon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Heaven 17,
Symarip,
Erasure,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Smog,
Joe Smooth,
Graham Central Station,
Marc Almond,
The Misunderstood,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Black Dice,
Derrick May,
Mandrill,
The Trojans,
Roxette,
The Associates,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Brothers Johnson,
cv313,
China Crisis,
Charles Mingus,
Roy Ayers,
Todd Rundgren,
Kurtis Blow,
Aural Exciters,
The Moleskins,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Sugar Minott,
Cecil Taylor,
The Slits,
Tubeway Army,
The Slackers,
The Smoke,
Lyres,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.