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 Palau and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Mantronix to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All The Gun Club tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anthony Braxton record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Jerry's Kids,
Skarface,
the Association,
Scan 7,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gabor Szabo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Litter,
Radiohead,
Donald Byrd,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Hasil Adkins,
X-102,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Q and Not U,
The Remains,
Brass Construction,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Swans,
Zero Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pet Shop Boys,
Thee Headcoats,
Michelle Simonal,
Fugazi,
Man Parrish,
Altered Images,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Vladislav Delay,
The Blues Magoos,
Radio Birdman,
Mars,
Jandek,
Flash Fearless,
Max Romeo,
Morten Harket,
Kevin Saunderson,
F. McDonald,
Joe Finger,
Pole,
Cecil Taylor,
Heaven 17,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Skaos,
The Sonics,
Boz Scaggs,
The J.B.'s,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bush Tetras,
Sex Pistols,
The American Breed,
Lungfish,
Anakelly,
The Residents,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lalann,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Mantronix,
Fad Gadget,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.