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 Samoa and from Salvador.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Lebanon Hanover,
Procol Harum,
Howard Jones,
Skriet,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dennis Brown,
Roxy Music,
Thompson Twins,
The Young Rascals,
KRS-One,
The Cure,
Oblivians,
the Bar-Kays,
The Blackbyrds,
Roy Ayers,
Neil Young,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sonic Youth,
Moby Grape,
Panda Bear,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Barry Ungar,
Kayak,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wally Richardson,
Blancmange,
The Dirtbombs,
Trumans Water,
DNA,
Skaos,
Albert Ayler,
Throbbing Gristle,
Franke,
R.M.O.,
The Flesh Eaters,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Leonard Cohen,
The Pretty Things,
Jandek,
DJ Style,
This Heat,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stereo Dub,
Fatback Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Black Pus,
Section 25,
Dead Boys,
Aural Exciters,
The Knickerbockers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gastr Del Sol,
Jacob Miller,
The Smiths,
Saccharine Trust,
Magma,
Dark Day,
Country Teasers,
The Wake,
Y Pants,
The Kinks,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.