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 New Zealand and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 linndrum 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 These Immortal Souls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gastr Del Sol. All the underground hits.
All Lizzy Mercier Descloux tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visage record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Negative Approach,
Godley & Creme,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Barracudas,
LL Cool J,
Max Romeo,
Joe Smooth,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The J.B.'s,
Second Layer,
Inner City,
Ten City,
Nico,
Moby Grape,
Cybotron,
the Association,
Reuben Wilson,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Au Pairs,
Nik Kershaw,
Symarip,
Pole,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Dead C,
Schoolly D,
Agent Orange,
Sonic Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Coltrane,
Lou Reed,
Crime,
Todd Rundgren,
The Birthday Party,
Sparks,
Intrusion,
Faust,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eric B and Rakim,
X-102,
Dorothy Ashby,
Black Bananas,
E-Dancer,
The Mighty Diamonds,
kango's stein massive,
L. Decosne,
Robert Wyatt,
Maleditus Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gang Gang Dance,
Matthew Bourne,
The Monochrome Set,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Roger Hodgson,
Ultra Naté,
Traffic Nightmare,
Lungfish,
Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix, Mantronix.
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.