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 Kosovo and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud to the crunk 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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All Bang on a Can All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Steve Hackett,
Franke,
Pet Shop Boys,
Alphaville,
Schoolly D,
Banda Bassotti,
Rekid,
Half Japanese,
Joey Negro,
Leonard Cohen,
Ralphi Rosario,
Amazonics,
D'Angelo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Camouflage,
New Age Steppers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Los Fastidios,
Marmalade,
Bobby Womack,
Angry Samoans,
T. Rex,
Y Pants,
Glambeats Corp.,
Black Moon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
These Immortal Souls,
Boredoms,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
ABC,
Freddie Wadling,
Echospace,
The Fall,
Kool Moe Dee,
Surgeon,
Michelle Simonal,
The Standells,
Deadbeat,
The Sound,
Camberwell Now,
Jacob Miller,
The Tremeloes,
Sexual Harrassment,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Theoretical Girls,
Jerry's Kids,
Lalann,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Goldenarms,
Brass Construction,
Arthur Verocai,
Television,
Cecil Taylor,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Bill Wells,
Josef K,
Sex Pistols,
Matthew Halsall,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.