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 Philippines and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe 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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the rock 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 Reuben Wilson. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dennis Brown 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Pop Group,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Dead C,
The Fire Engines,
Sonny Sharrock,
New Age Steppers,
8 Eyed Spy,
Drexciya,
Ultra Naté,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Country Teasers,
Parry Music,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nils Olav,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Fela Kuti,
Derrick May,
Eurythmics,
Ituana,
Aswad,
Ten City,
The Doors,
Mark Hollis,
Camouflage,
The Slits,
Gabor Szabo,
Harmonia,
Flash Fearless,
The Mojo Men,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Sonics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Panda Bear,
Marshall Jefferson,
MDC,
Colin Newman,
Andrew Hill,
Jandek,
Steve Hackett,
Spoonie Gee,
Monks,
The Zeros,
The Raincoats,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Leonard Cohen,
The Shadows of Knight,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Grauzone,
Crooked Eye,
Moebius,
Organ,
Kool Moe Dee,
Erasure,
Todd Rundgren,
Swans,
Lightning Bolt,
The Count Five,
DJ Sneak,
Byron Stingily,
LL Cool J,
Lucky Dragons,
Reagan Youth,
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow.
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.