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 Marshall Islands and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the grime 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Funky Four + One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
It's A Beautiful Day,
Al Stewart,
Pantaleimon,
The Cure,
Scratch Acid,
Maleditus Sound,
Khruangbin,
Easy Going,
Scientists,
PIL,
Scan 7,
Delon & Dalcan,
Chris & Cosey,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
UT,
Ronnie Foster,
Television Personalities,
The Doobie Brothers,
Saccharine Trust,
Bizarre Inc.,
One Last Wish,
Brothers Johnson,
Underground Resistance,
Piero Umiliani,
Funkadelic,
The Moody Blues,
Roy Ayers,
Metal Thangz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Harpers Bizarre,
Toni Rubio,
Johnny Osbourne,
Severed Heads,
LL Cool J,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Crooked Eye,
E-Dancer,
Sonic Youth,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Soft Cell,
Wolf Eyes,
Johnny Clarke,
Quantec,
Kas Product,
The Electric Prunes,
A Certain Ratio,
Tears for Fears,
Von Mondo,
Peter and Kerry,
Vladislav Delay,
The Buckinghams,
New Order,
Y Pants,
June Days,
Rufus Thomas,
Monks,
Public Enemy,
The Raincoats,
Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland, Eric Copeland.
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.