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 Suriname and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Josef K to the electroclash 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 ABC. All the underground hits.
All Underground Resistance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Shadows of Knight,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wolf Eyes,
Anthony Braxton,
Young Marble Giants,
Steve Hackett,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
China Crisis,
Pere Ubu,
Roy Ayers,
The Divine Comedy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bobby Womack,
Absolute Body Control,
Faust,
Animal Collective,
Minor Threat,
The Grass Roots,
Popol Vuh,
The United States of America,
Marshall Jefferson,
David McCallum,
The Names,
Judy Mowatt,
The Velvet Underground,
Dawn Penn,
World's Most,
Gichy Dan,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Swell Maps,
The Victims,
The Kinks,
The Offenders,
Gang Green,
Traffic Nightmare,
Hasil Adkins,
Technova,
Intrusion,
The Music Machine,
Groovy Waters,
Tubeway Army,
Panda Bear,
Stereo Dub,
Loose Ends,
Essential Logic,
Soft Machine,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Crash Course in Science,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Davy DMX,
Minny Pops,
the Germs,
Nico,
Al Stewart,
Peter & Gordon,
R.M.O.,
Michelle Simonal,
Boz Scaggs,
Laurel Aitken,
Max Romeo,
Byron Stingily,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.