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 Japan and from Accra.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Reagan Youth to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Can. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Move 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Danielle Patucci,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Smoke,
Chris & Cosey,
48th St. Collective,
Sam Rivers,
Anakelly,
Intrusion,
Animal Collective,
Roy Ayers,
Bauhaus,
The Wake,
In Retrospect,
Suicide,
Andrew Hill,
Q and Not U,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Human League,
Robert Wyatt,
Jerry's Kids,
Pantaleimon,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lungfish,
Erasure,
The United States of America,
Zapp,
Underground Resistance,
Negative Approach,
The Doobie Brothers,
Letta Mbulu,
The Skatalites,
Todd Terry,
Smog,
The Doors,
Model 500,
Au Pairs,
The New Christs,
Warren Ellis,
New Order,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stereo Dub,
Newcleus,
Gabor Szabo,
Main Source,
A Certain Ratio,
Todd Rundgren,
Susan Cadogan,
The Selecter,
Thompson Twins,
Soulsonic Force,
Motorama,
The Pretty Things,
Ossler,
Derrick Morgan,
Skriet,
Bang On A Can,
The Seeds,
The Gun Club,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Deakin,
Anthony Braxton,
Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack, Bobby Womack.
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.