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 Finland and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the oboe 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 Deadbeat to the crunk 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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a theremin and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deakin,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Moss Icon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Soft Machine,
The Stooges,
Godley & Creme,
New Order,
Todd Rundgren,
Saccharine Trust,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Germs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Warsaw,
June of 44,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Trojans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Tim Buckley,
The Offenders,
Wolf Eyes,
Adolescents,
Brothers Johnson,
EPMD,
Darondo,
Joensuu 1685,
Loose Ends,
The Divine Comedy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Slave,
Funkadelic,
Hot Snakes,
kango's stein massive,
The United States of America,
The Skatalites,
Organ,
Kas Product,
David McCallum,
T.S.O.L.,
UT,
Amon Düül,
Ralphi Rosario,
Joey Negro,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scan 7,
Siglo XX,
Dark Day,
Mad Mike,
a-ha,
Black Sheep,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Birthday Party,
Black Flag,
Leonard Cohen,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
JFA,
Urselle,
The Index,
The Star Department,
Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth, Man Eating Sloth.
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.