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 Panama and from Taipei.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Nils Olav to the rap 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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Groovy Waters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barry Ungar,
Make Up,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pole,
Danielle Patucci,
Deepchord,
Moby Grape,
Yazoo,
Brass Construction,
The Skatalites,
Zapp,
Oneida,
Hardrive,
Urselle,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Thompson Twins,
The Invisible,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Slackers,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Mars,
the Association,
Colin Newman,
Massinfluence,
The Neon Judgement,
Grandmaster Flash,
Scrapy,
Jerry's Kids,
The Kinks,
Darondo,
Warren Ellis,
Maurizio,
Half Japanese,
The Beau Brummels,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Toni Rubio,
Scan 7,
The American Breed,
Zero Boys,
Au Pairs,
Ornette Coleman,
Sarah Menescal,
Public Image Ltd.,
Nas,
Pharoah Sanders,
Easy Going,
Susan Cadogan,
Tres Demented,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Smoke,
Fluxion,
Fugazi,
Donny Hathaway,
Y Pants,
Gang of Four,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Al Stewart,
Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu, Pere Ubu.
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.