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 Tuvalu and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the electroclash 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 Fela Kuti. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Misunderstood record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echo & the Bunnymen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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?
Danielle Patucci,
Soul Sonic Force,
Delta 5,
Boredoms,
The Smiths,
The Neon Judgement,
D'Angelo,
Scan 7,
Deakin,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Toni Rubio,
X-101,
Jeff Lynne,
Index,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Metal Thangz,
Blake Baxter,
The Modern Lovers,
Ken Boothe,
The Pop Group,
Henry Cow,
Sixth Finger,
Sight & Sound,
Tim Buckley,
Tomorrow,
Mo-Dettes,
Marc Almond,
the Sonics,
Eddi Front,
Roger Hodgson,
The Electric Prunes,
The Cure,
Von Mondo,
B.T. Express,
Jeff Mills,
Grauzone,
Panda Bear,
Lower 48,
Roxy Music,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jacob Miller,
The Martian,
Monolake,
The Cramps,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jawbox,
Technova,
Robert Wyatt,
Slick Rick,
Flash Fearless,
Max Romeo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Throbbing Gristle,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Detroit Cobras,
Royal Trux,
Marmalade,
Aswad,
Das Ding,
Wings,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.