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 El Salvador and from Salvador.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Arcadia to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Lydon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nik Kershaw,
Blancmange,
World's Most,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ash Ra Tempel,
D'Angelo,
Silicon Teens,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Minnie Riperton,
Buzzcocks,
Quantec,
Flash Fearless,
Yusef Lateef,
The Alarm Clocks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
New Order,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Roger Hodgson,
The Doobie Brothers,
Blossom Toes,
Malaria!,
Talk Talk,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Technova,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang of Four,
Japan,
Adolescents,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Slick Rick,
Lightning Bolt,
Altered Images,
Bush Tetras,
Gang Starr,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joey Negro,
Newcleus,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jawbox,
Symarip,
DJ Sneak,
Warsaw,
John Foxx,
Harmonia,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Divine Comedy,
The Selecter,
Banda Bassotti,
Lower 48,
Lindisfarne,
Ituana,
Dawn Penn,
PIL,
Clear Light,
cv313,
Mark Hollis,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX, Siglo XX.
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.