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 Malaysia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 8 Eyed Spy to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marine Girls,
Yazoo,
Avey Tare,
Radiohead,
Stereo Dub,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Letta Mbulu,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ten City,
Half Japanese,
The Cramps,
The Vogues,
Icehouse,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Flash Fearless,
Intrusion,
Bad Manners,
Marvin Gaye,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Scion,
Barbara Tucker,
Howard Jones,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joe Finger,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bill Near,
Connie Case,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
the Sonics,
FM Einheit,
David McCallum,
These Immortal Souls,
Rosa Yemen,
Ronnie Foster,
Bobby Sherman,
Joey Negro,
Sandy B,
Nirvana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Goldenarms,
Swell Maps,
Sun Ra,
Nation of Ulysses,
Rotary Connection,
Electric Prunes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Andrew Hill,
Magazine,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Five Americans,
Public Image Ltd.,
One Last Wish,
Au Pairs,
China Crisis,
Underground Resistance,
The Fuzztones,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Angry Samoans,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Con Funk Shun,
PIL,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.