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 Kuwait and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Jerry Gold Smith to the crunk 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Young Marble Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The J.B.'s 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Byron Stingily,
Deadbeat,
Icehouse,
Johnny Clarke,
T. Rex,
Cymande,
Guru Guru,
48th St. Collective,
The Dave Clark Five,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nirvana,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Section 25,
Wolf Eyes,
Urselle,
Jeru the Damaja,
Babytalk,
Bush Tetras,
The Cowsills,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Little Man,
The Stooges,
Lou Christie,
Livin' Joy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sonic Youth,
Bobby Womack,
Bauhaus,
Eric Copeland,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dennis Brown,
Sound Behaviour,
Hoover,
Con Funk Shun,
Max Romeo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ronan,
Lyres,
The Move,
The Real Kids,
Q and Not U,
Man Parrish,
Stiv Bators,
Minor Threat,
Bobbi Humphrey,
New York Dolls,
The Smoke,
Sun City Girls,
T.S.O.L.,
ABC,
The Smiths,
Amazonics,
Barbara Tucker,
Reagan Youth,
Scott Walker,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Pere Ubu,
Pylon,
Tres Demented,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.