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 Uzbekistan and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Lou Reed 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 Saccharine Trust to the disco 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Terry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Camouflage,
Dawn Penn,
the Normal,
Goldenarms,
Crash Course in Science,
Quantec,
Robert Wyatt,
Cal Tjader,
the Swans,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Todd Rundgren,
Bobby Womack,
Outsiders,
Black Sheep,
Marc Almond,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Johnny Osbourne,
Terrestrial Tones,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nirvana,
Brand Nubian,
The Victims,
Swans,
Curtis Mayfield,
Eric Copeland,
Vladislav Delay,
Thompson Twins,
Altered Images,
Subhumans,
New Age Steppers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lee Hazlewood,
Theoretical Girls,
the Sonics,
Joy Division,
48th St. Collective,
Lyres,
Lakeside,
Neu!,
Ossler,
Marine Girls,
Clear Light,
Rakim,
Sexual Harrassment,
Faraquet,
Fatback Band,
Kurtis Blow,
Delon & Dalcan,
Alice Coltrane,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ponytail,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
UT,
Robert Görl,
Skaos,
Skarface,
Newcleus,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell, Soft Cell.
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.