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 Ethiopia and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 The American Breed to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Human League. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Unrelated Segments,
The Beau Brummels,
The Raincoats,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Marc Almond,
Blancmange,
Pantaleimon,
Black Sheep,
Lungfish,
Steve Hackett,
The Real Kids,
Roy Ayers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pierre Henry,
Barclay James Harvest,
Agent Orange,
Soft Cell,
Bauhaus,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Absolute Body Control,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Nico,
Kenny Larkin,
The Detroit Cobras,
The New Christs,
The Electric Prunes,
Sound Behaviour,
the Normal,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Index,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Erasure,
Jeru the Damaja,
Black Moon,
Simply Red,
Marmalade,
ABC,
Marine Girls,
Neu!,
Rod Modell,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Newcleus,
Harmonia,
Amazonics,
Amon Düül,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Flesh Eaters,
Siglo XX,
Cheater Slicks,
Josef K,
The Seeds,
Pere Ubu,
The Five Americans,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Stooges,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.