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 Croatia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Inner City to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
8 Eyed Spy,
Jerry's Kids,
AZ,
Ronan,
Iggy Pop,
Eddi Front,
Mark Hollis,
Howard Jones,
Sam Rivers,
cv313,
Joy Division,
The Smiths,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Tubeway Army,
Alton Ellis,
The Stooges,
June Days,
The Leaves,
Maleditus Sound,
Robert Görl,
Stiv Bators,
The Litter,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hot Snakes,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
New Order,
Idris Muhammad,
ABC,
Malaria!,
H. Thieme,
Silicon Teens,
Carl Craig,
Crash Course in Science,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nation of Ulysses,
Faust,
the Normal,
Michelle Simonal,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Tropical Tobacco,
Parry Music,
The Slackers,
Mad Mike,
OOIOO,
Y Pants,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pere Ubu,
Roy Ayers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marvin Gaye,
Deepchord,
Black Flag,
Fear,
Ralphi Rosario,
Basic Channel,
Ultra Naté,
FM Einheit,
Kenny Larkin,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.