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 Guinea and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Peter & Gordon to the crunk 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Brick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Los Fastidios record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ten City record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
X-102,
Popol Vuh,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scrapy,
Depeche Mode,
Radiohead,
Massinfluence,
Byron Stingily,
Vladislav Delay,
Silicon Teens,
Gang of Four,
John Foxx,
Ronnie Foster,
DNA,
Das Ding,
The Seeds,
The Evens,
MDC,
Dawn Penn,
Boredoms,
Archie Shepp,
China Crisis,
Oneida,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joensuu 1685,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Hardrive,
The Associates,
Nas,
Kerrie Biddell,
Harry Pussy,
AZ,
Section 25,
The Cramps,
Yusef Lateef,
Lou Christie,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Eurythmics,
Make Up,
Anakelly,
The Leaves,
Marmalade,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Johnny Clarke,
Scientists,
Black Flag,
the Normal,
Lightning Bolt,
The Dave Clark Five,
Quando Quango,
The Durutti Column,
Maurizio,
Suburban Knight,
Bauhaus,
Shoche,
Deakin,
Arab on Radar,
The Blackbyrds,
Severed Heads,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.
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.