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 Tanzania and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 Mumbai and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 harpsichord 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 Qualms to the disco 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 The Monks. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Zeros,
The Fuzztones,
Absolute Body Control,
Pagans,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Yazoo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Blossom Toes,
Lungfish,
Stereo Dub,
Intrusion,
Althea and Donna,
Unrelated Segments,
Jimmy McGriff,
Cal Tjader,
Cameo,
Blake Baxter,
Altered Images,
The Knickerbockers,
Nas,
Circle Jerks,
Urselle,
ABC,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Tears for Fears,
Hasil Adkins,
Max Romeo,
Easy Going,
Au Pairs,
U.S. Maple,
Cecil Taylor,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Ultimate Spinach,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
John Coltrane,
Schoolly D,
Echospace,
the Germs,
Iggy Pop,
Dave Gahan,
The Residents,
Bush Tetras,
Mantronix,
Sun City Girls,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
10cc,
Television Personalities,
The Dirtbombs,
Mr. Review,
Parry Music,
Slave,
Black Sheep,
Supertramp,
Jawbox,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Bourne,
June Days,
Joe Smooth,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Josef K,
Todd Terry,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.
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.