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 Monaco and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Mars to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Derrick May. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lebanon Hanover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Slits,
Vladislav Delay,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Neil Young,
Magazine,
The Durutti Column,
The Grass Roots,
Q and Not U,
Maurizio,
Hoover,
Scratch Acid,
Average White Band,
The Music Machine,
Mars,
Zapp,
Quadrant,
Delta 5,
Flipper,
Grandmaster Flash,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Gabor Szabo,
Sällskapet,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Dead C,
The Detroit Cobras,
T. Rex,
Tommy Roe,
The Vogues,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Visage,
Los Fastidios,
Severed Heads,
Cheater Slicks,
DJ Style,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Agitation Free,
The Standells,
Gang Green,
Susan Cadogan,
Siglo XX,
D'Angelo,
Zero Boys,
Radiopuhelimet,
Icehouse,
Cal Tjader,
Section 25,
Camberwell Now,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kurtis Blow,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Gories,
Marmalade,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dorothy Ashby,
Porter Ricks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.