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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the grime 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 Minnie Riperton. All the underground hits.
All Brass Construction tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Ice-T,
Roxy Music,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Yazoo,
Jacob Miller,
Dual Sessions,
Alison Limerick,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Gregory Isaacs,
Soft Machine,
Eli Mardock,
The Searchers,
Neu!,
Don Cherry,
Das Ding,
CMW,
Pere Ubu,
John Foxx,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Henry Cow,
Kenny Larkin,
Desert Stars,
Junior Murvin,
Rakim,
Kerri Chandler,
Masters at Work,
Icehouse,
Minutemen,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Stetsasonic,
The Fugs,
Freddie Wadling,
Hot Snakes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Real Kids,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Moss Icon,
Michelle Simonal,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Brand Nubian,
Inner City,
Toni Rubio,
UT,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Davy DMX,
Easy Going,
Robert Hood,
Letta Mbulu,
The Sonics,
The Fortunes,
China Crisis,
Ossler,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Connie Case,
In Retrospect,
Camouflage,
FM Einheit,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Tomorrow,
The Fire Engines,
Hoover,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids.
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.