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 Canada and from Stockholm.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Sugar Minott to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pierre Henry,
Rhythm & Sound,
Black Flag,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Funky Four + One,
Eric Dolphy,
Sight & Sound,
Rites of Spring,
The Saints,
Make Up,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Marine Girls,
Sex Pistols,
the Bar-Kays,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Underground Resistance,
Stetsasonic,
Slick Rick,
Rufus Thomas,
Grauzone,
John Holt,
Mantronix,
Traffic Nightmare,
JFA,
R.M.O.,
Deepchord,
Bill Wells,
Whodini,
Roxy Music,
Boredoms,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
This Heat,
Neil Young,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lee Hazlewood,
8 Eyed Spy,
Moebius,
Stiv Bators,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Half Japanese,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ossler,
Can,
Jandek,
Duran Duran,
Hashim,
FM Einheit,
The Names,
The Leaves,
Derrick Morgan,
Sound Behaviour,
Scion,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Trumans Water,
Matthew Halsall,
Nick Fraelich,
Kenny Larkin,
Grey Daturas,
T.S.O.L.,
Rosa Yemen,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.