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 Sri Lanka and from Beijing.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Mantronix to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Angry Samoans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Todd Terry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Soft Machine,
Piero Umiliani,
Tim Buckley,
The Techniques,
Skaos,
Pantytec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tres Demented,
Andrew Hill,
Henry Cow,
Robert Hood,
Television Personalities,
Royal Trux,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Accadde A,
Kurtis Blow,
Colin Newman,
MDC,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Crash Course in Science,
Newcleus,
Thee Headcoats,
Arthur Verocai,
Judy Mowatt,
U.S. Maple,
Quantec,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
CMW,
Cymande,
Robert Wyatt,
Basic Channel,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Lower 48,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Blackbyrds,
One Last Wish,
Liliput,
Procol Harum,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Birthday Party,
John Holt,
Kas Product,
Hashim,
Eric B and Rakim,
Roxy Music,
Pole,
Pharoah Sanders,
China Crisis,
the Fania All-Stars,
Lindisfarne,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
EPMD,
Scott Walker,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Soft Cell,
the Human League,
The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood, The Misunderstood.
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.