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 Burkina and from Salvador.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe 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 Warsaw to the rock 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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Fatback Band,
Second Layer,
Excepter,
Patti Smith,
Gang Green,
Reagan Youth,
10cc,
Minutemen,
Deepchord,
Groovy Waters,
Chrome,
Rufus Thomas,
Heaven 17,
The Pretty Things,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ituana,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gang of Four,
Harry Pussy,
Robert Wyatt,
AZ,
Boogie Down Productions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Black Sheep,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Soft Cell,
Mission of Burma,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Eden Ahbez,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Pulsallama,
Desert Stars,
Sugar Minott,
Siglo XX,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Das Ding,
The J.B.'s,
John Cale,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pierre Henry,
Rosa Yemen,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Todd Terry,
Bobby Byrd,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
MDC,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Agitation Free,
Eli Mardock,
U.S. Maple,
Bang On A Can,
Ultra Naté,
The Gun Club,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.