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 Chile and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the electroclash 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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Swans,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Charles Mingus,
Soulsonic Force,
Amon Düül II,
Second Layer,
Black Pus,
Talk Talk,
MC5,
Eurythmics,
John Holt,
Nils Olav,
Pantytec,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Blossom Toes,
The Busters,
Andrew Hill,
T. Rex,
D'Angelo,
Drexciya,
Hardrive,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eden Ahbez,
The Smoke,
Rakim,
New York Dolls,
Bootsy Collins,
Sarah Menescal,
Hot Snakes,
Prince Buster,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joey Negro,
Procol Harum,
Fela Kuti,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Alice Coltrane,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Arcadia,
Don Cherry,
The Monochrome Set,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Echospace,
Popol Vuh,
Mark Hollis,
Nas,
The Stooges,
Franke,
Gastr Del Sol,
Black Sheep,
Harpers Bizarre,
Visage,
Saccharine Trust,
Kenny Larkin,
Isaac Hayes,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mantronix,
The Gladiators,
Morten Harket,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.