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 Zimbabwe and from Delhi.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Winnipeg.
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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Dual Sessions to the rap 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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lakeside 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Main Source record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fortunes,
Minny Pops,
Von Mondo,
The Modern Lovers,
Tommy Roe,
Fugazi,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skaos,
This Heat,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Alton Ellis,
Chrome,
Nils Olav,
Cameo,
Black Flag,
Au Pairs,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Dave Gahan,
Delon & Dalcan,
Barbara Tucker,
Moby Grape,
Quando Quango,
Young Marble Giants,
Altered Images,
Fela Kuti,
Glambeats Corp.,
Deepchord,
Wire,
Fat Boys,
Zero Boys,
Deadbeat,
FM Einheit,
Graham Central Station,
Loose Ends,
Archie Shepp,
Clear Light,
H. Thieme,
Fatback Band,
Drexciya,
Rapeman,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Audionom,
Amon Düül,
48th St. Collective,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
China Crisis,
Schoolly D,
The Count Five,
Faraquet,
The Shadows of Knight,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Angels of Light,
David McCallum,
Echospace,
Warren Ellis,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Human League,
Roger Hodgson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.