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 Israel and from Milan.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Qualms to the jazz 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Modern Lovers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Moebius record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funky Four + One,
The Trojans,
Kaleidoscope,
Quadrant,
Rotary Connection,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Con Funk Shun,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Eden Ahbez,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Star Department,
The Doobie Brothers,
Matthew Halsall,
John Coltrane,
The Young Rascals,
Joy Division,
The J.B.'s,
Second Layer,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Skaos,
Zero Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pagans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Cale,
Minny Pops,
Byron Stingily,
Wolf Eyes,
the Human League,
Moby Grape,
Duran Duran,
The New Christs,
Thompson Twins,
Sugar Minott,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
New Order,
Nils Olav,
The Music Machine,
Henry Cow,
Drexciya,
Royal Trux,
Mantronix,
The Electric Prunes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Khruangbin,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Model 500,
Gregory Isaacs,
Lalo Schifrin,
Rites of Spring,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Surgeon,
Average White Band,
Roy Ayers,
Deepchord,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola, The Red Krayola.
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.