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 Guinea-Bissau and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Lou Reed 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Section 25. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product 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 an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Misunderstood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Wake,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dennis Brown,
The Barracudas,
Rhythm & Sound,
Eric Copeland,
Howard Jones,
The Grass Roots,
Boogie Down Productions,
Niagra,
Cheater Slicks,
Glenn Branca,
U.S. Maple,
Minor Threat,
Neil Young,
Unrelated Segments,
Wire,
The Litter,
Fatback Band,
Scientists,
David Bowie,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Techniques,
Jandek,
Severed Heads,
The Electric Prunes,
Q65,
Crime,
Cybotron,
EPMD,
The Gap Band,
Minutemen,
Zapp,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
These Immortal Souls,
Joe Finger,
Gichy Dan,
Oneida,
Zero Boys,
Jacob Miller,
Infiniti,
Pere Ubu,
Shoche,
Wolf Eyes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Yellowson,
Magazine,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
ABC,
The Misunderstood,
The Sonics,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minny Pops,
This Heat,
The Zeros,
Surgeon,
The Stooges,
The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues, The Vogues.
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.