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 Morocco and from Salvador.
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 Beijing and Manchester.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Harmonia to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Faust,
Silicon Teens,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fugs,
Basic Channel,
Altered Images,
Newcleus,
Symarip,
Desert Stars,
Althea and Donna,
Davy DMX,
Chrome,
Babytalk,
Section 25,
The Moody Blues,
Franke,
Moebius,
Easy Going,
Letta Mbulu,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
In Retrospect,
Suburban Knight,
Drive Like Jehu,
Negative Approach,
The United States of America,
Niagra,
The Kinks,
World's Most,
John Coltrane,
Unrelated Segments,
Roger Hodgson,
The Tremeloes,
Godley & Creme,
Lightning Bolt,
the Association,
Jeff Mills,
Arthur Verocai,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Reuben Wilson,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Deakin,
Absolute Body Control,
The Birthday Party,
Sight & Sound,
Yaz,
48th St. Collective,
Drexciya,
The Grass Roots,
Eurythmics,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Half Japanese,
Aswad,
Reagan Youth,
This Heat,
Amon Düül II,
Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse, Icehouse.
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.