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 Fiji and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Ludus to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Techniques. All the underground hits.
All Colin Newman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Camberwell Now,
Reagan Youth,
Audionom,
Faraquet,
Blake Baxter,
The Music Machine,
Cameo,
Pere Ubu,
Panda Bear,
Yusef Lateef,
The Doobie Brothers,
ABC,
Niagra,
John Foxx,
John Holt,
the Fania All-Stars,
Nas,
Rotary Connection,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Circle Jerks,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rakim,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Warren Ellis,
Boz Scaggs,
Scott Walker,
the Normal,
Youth Brigade,
Josef K,
kango's stein massive,
Silicon Teens,
Monolake,
Cheater Slicks,
Section 25,
Thee Headcoats,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Kurtis Blow,
Gichy Dan,
Altered Images,
Marcia Griffiths,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
a-ha,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Heaven 17,
New York Dolls,
Surgeon,
Interpol,
Sällskapet,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Offenders,
Fugazi,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Neil Young,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Technova,
Deepchord,
The Fugs,
New Age Steppers,
Tropical Tobacco,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.