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 Mongolia and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Clear Light to the rock 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Alison Limerick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
A Certain Ratio,
Duran Duran,
Matthew Bourne,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Excepter,
EPMD,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Aloha Tigers,
Graham Central Station,
Yazoo,
Erykah Badu,
Glenn Branca,
Laurel Aitken,
Arthur Verocai,
Donald Byrd,
Junior Murvin,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Martian,
Stiv Bators,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Roxette,
Lakeside,
Yusef Lateef,
Aural Exciters,
Icehouse,
Godley & Creme,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Gladiators,
Sixth Finger,
Rhythm & Sound,
Wings,
The Residents,
Monolake,
Joensuu 1685,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Sound,
Make Up,
The Dirtbombs,
Eric B and Rakim,
Dennis Brown,
Dave Gahan,
Nas,
Soulsonic Force,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ludus,
Goldenarms,
The J.B.'s,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
UT,
Suburban Knight,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scratch Acid,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Roy Ayers,
Guru Guru,
Archie Shepp,
The Evens, The Evens, The Evens, The Evens.
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.