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 Italy and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.
All The Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Man Eating Sloth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Clear Light,
Silicon Teens,
Boz Scaggs,
Severed Heads,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Mars,
The Barracudas,
A Certain Ratio,
the Slits,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Amon Düül,
Brand Nubian,
Bad Manners,
La Düsseldorf,
E-Dancer,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mr. Review,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nirvana,
Pierre Henry,
Joensuu 1685,
Funkadelic,
Robert Wyatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Pantytec,
D'Angelo,
Kayak,
David McCallum,
The Motions,
Scott Walker,
Neu!,
Japan,
Deepchord,
Lower 48,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
MC5,
Toni Rubio,
Derrick Morgan,
Josef K,
The Happenings,
Youth Brigade,
Lungfish,
The Misunderstood,
Bobby Sherman,
Babytalk,
The Monks,
Robert Görl,
Blake Baxter,
U.S. Maple,
Connie Case,
Ossler,
Easy Going,
Gerry Rafferty,
Andrew Hill,
Skriet,
Amazonics,
Patti Smith,
Fad Gadget,
Freddie Wadling,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.