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 South Sudan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Black Moon to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Kenny Larkin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-102 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yellowson,
Sister Nancy,
Pagans,
Letta Mbulu,
Anakelly,
Scan 7,
Joensuu 1685,
Deadbeat,
Mars,
China Crisis,
Sun Ra,
Mark Hollis,
Bush Tetras,
the Fania All-Stars,
The United States of America,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Audionom,
Theoretical Girls,
Radiopuhelimet,
Panda Bear,
a-ha,
The Grass Roots,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Alarm Clocks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Judy Mowatt,
Agent Orange,
Bobby Sherman,
Chrome,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Young Rascals,
The Fuzztones,
Junior Murvin,
Robert Görl,
Surgeon,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Altered Images,
Monolake,
Icehouse,
Mission of Burma,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Michelle Simonal,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wasted Youth,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Procol Harum,
Mantronix,
Massinfluence,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Girls At Our Best!,
Piero Umiliani,
Arab on Radar,
The Index,
The Invisible,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kayak,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Alphaville,
The Gladiators,
Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.
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.