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 France and from Toronto.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 Eden Ahbez to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Kerri Chandler,
Audionom,
The Index,
Moby Grape,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
LL Cool J,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Avey Tare,
New Order,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lower 48,
Fat Boys,
The Red Krayola,
The Blackbyrds,
Minnie Riperton,
A Certain Ratio,
Bauhaus,
MDC,
T.S.O.L.,
Intrusion,
Spandau Ballet,
Wire,
Livin' Joy,
Flash Fearless,
Rod Modell,
Drive Like Jehu,
Mandrill,
The Tremeloes,
Roger Hodgson,
Black Moon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Music Machine,
The Pop Group,
Funky Four + One,
Pantaleimon,
Neu!,
New Age Steppers,
Lightning Bolt,
Pulsallama,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kevin Saunderson,
Tubeway Army,
Quadrant,
Gang Starr,
Das Ding,
Joey Negro,
Surgeon,
Jerry's Kids,
Slick Rick,
Mark Hollis,
Man Parrish,
Ituana,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
China Crisis,
Youth Brigade,
Shuggie Otis,
Chrome,
The Last Poets,
Eric B and Rakim,
Mad Mike,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.