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 Kosovo and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gregory Isaacs to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Detroit Cobras. All the underground hits.
All Symarip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
The Grass Roots,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Wire,
New Order,
Joensuu 1685,
Quantec,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Bootsy Collins,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Magma,
Roy Ayers,
Maleditus Sound,
Avey Tare,
Boogie Down Productions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gang Gang Dance,
Josef K,
The Searchers,
PIL,
Ronan,
The Music Machine,
Ludus,
New York Dolls,
Jacob Miller,
Japan,
LL Cool J,
Pylon,
Erykah Badu,
Soft Cell,
Trumans Water,
The Cramps,
Aural Exciters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Al Stewart,
E-Dancer,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scratch Acid,
Kenny Larkin,
The Doors,
Lightning Bolt,
Agent Orange,
Bang On A Can,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Eve St. Jones,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fluxion,
The Kinks,
Outsiders,
Moss Icon,
Danielle Patucci,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Inner City,
Terrestrial Tones,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lou Christie,
Eli Mardock,
Eric B and Rakim,
Eric Dolphy,
Idris Muhammad,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.