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 Indonesia and from Manchester.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 DJ Style to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Eyeless In Gaza. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick May,
The Cowsills,
Severed Heads,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Public Enemy,
The Buckinghams,
Fad Gadget,
Sister Nancy,
David Bowie,
Schoolly D,
Bill Near,
AZ,
This Heat,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Duran Duran,
Laurel Aitken,
Unwound,
Bluetip,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Icehouse,
Barbara Tucker,
Con Funk Shun,
Von Mondo,
The Skatalites,
Gong,
Lower 48,
Black Flag,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
A Certain Ratio,
Agent Orange,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joyce Sims,
Rakim,
Darondo,
Soulsonic Force,
Lou Christie,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kayak,
Simply Red,
Marmalade,
Janne Schatter,
Average White Band,
The J.B.'s,
Bob Dylan,
Jawbox,
Scan 7,
Ossler,
Depeche Mode,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kaleidoscope,
Nation of Ulysses,
10cc,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Bar-Kays,
Harmonia,
Sam Rivers,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.