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 Sierra Leone and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Shanghai.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sun City Girls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dead Boys,
Nico,
Au Pairs,
Chris & Cosey,
Grauzone,
Visage,
The Busters,
Altered Images,
The Techniques,
Bronski Beat,
Pantytec,
Arab on Radar,
Porter Ricks,
The Move,
Urselle,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Massinfluence,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lebanon Hanover,
UT,
China Crisis,
Procol Harum,
F. McDonald,
The Sonics,
David Axelrod,
Al Stewart,
Bang On A Can,
Gerry Rafferty,
Faust,
ABC,
Hashim,
New York Dolls,
The Misunderstood,
Scientists,
DJ Sneak,
The Cosmic Jokers,
the Swans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Stereo Dub,
Can,
The Barracudas,
The Black Dice,
Nirvana,
The Skatalites,
The Pretty Things,
Monks,
The Searchers,
Eurythmics,
Sister Nancy,
Barbara Tucker,
the Sonics,
Royal Trux,
Eden Ahbez,
The Saints,
Suburban Knight,
Scratch Acid,
The Red Krayola,
Quantec,
The Raincoats,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.