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 Korea South and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Henry Cow to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Wyatt,
Todd Terry,
Maleditus Sound,
John Coltrane,
Nirvana,
AZ,
Rufus Thomas,
Tom Boy,
Black Moon,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Kinks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Germs,
the Slits,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Darondo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Negative Approach,
Schoolly D,
U.S. Maple,
Crispian St. Peters,
Matthew Halsall,
the Bar-Kays,
Eden Ahbez,
Sight & Sound,
The Neon Judgement,
The Misunderstood,
Sound Behaviour,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Audionom,
Main Source,
Soulsonic Force,
Quadrant,
Franke,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
JFA,
June of 44,
Altered Images,
Groovy Waters,
ABBA,
KRS-One,
Grandmaster Flash,
Eve St. Jones,
Avey Tare,
Stockholm Monsters,
Smog,
Aloha Tigers,
Peter and Kerry,
Gerry Rafferty,
New York Dolls,
Suicide,
Laurel Aitken,
Judy Mowatt,
Scientists,
The Mojo Men,
Kurtis Blow,
The Busters,
Echospace,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.