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 Madagascar and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Curtis Mayfield to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Chocolate Watch Band 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Laurel Aitken record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Detroit Cobras,
Boredoms,
Shoche,
One Last Wish,
Niagra,
Das Ding,
B.T. Express,
Dennis Brown,
Unrelated Segments,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Busters,
Bang On A Can,
Ludus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Vladislav Delay,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Moleskins,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Glenn Branca,
The Happenings,
Robert Hood,
Interpol,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jeff Mills,
Dark Day,
Byron Stingily,
The Dead C,
Tim Buckley,
Lower 48,
Janne Schatter,
Pierre Henry,
Aloha Tigers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Mojo Men,
Colin Newman,
Massinfluence,
A Certain Ratio,
Sight & Sound,
New York Dolls,
The Barracudas,
FM Einheit,
Subhumans,
The Vogues,
Index,
David McCallum,
Barrington Levy,
Reuben Wilson,
The Beau Brummels,
Khruangbin,
The Associates,
The Gap Band,
Iggy Pop,
Outsiders,
U.S. Maple,
Masters at Work,
Inner City,
Stiv Bators,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Thee Headcoats,
X-101,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.