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 Luxembourg and from Copenhagen.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 ABC to the disco 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 The Flesh Eaters. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Minutemen,
Gang Green,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ronnie Foster,
Minor Threat,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
One Last Wish,
Danielle Patucci,
The Wake,
Make Up,
CMW,
Scrapy,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The American Breed,
The Gap Band,
the Sonics,
R.M.O.,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Model 500,
Rufus Thomas,
Junior Murvin,
Idris Muhammad,
The Monks,
Aloha Tigers,
The Gun Club,
48th St. Collective,
Whodini,
Skarface,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Country Teasers,
Royal Trux,
Radio Birdman,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Soft Cell,
Soulsonic Force,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Khruangbin,
Liliput,
Blake Baxter,
Parry Music,
Interpol,
Donny Hathaway,
Oneida,
Connie Case,
Reagan Youth,
ABC,
Porter Ricks,
Vainqueur,
Surgeon,
The Remains,
Absolute Body Control,
The Associates,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sun City Girls,
Circle Jerks,
Eurythmics,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Arab on Radar,
Wally Richardson,
The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals, The Young Rascals.
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.