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 Tonga and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 güiro 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 Brand Nubian to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Soft Machine,
Royal Trux,
Rekid,
Matthew Halsall,
Gichy Dan,
Deepchord,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
New Age Steppers,
Prince Buster,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Cure,
Ossler,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Amazonics,
Cecil Taylor,
Section 25,
Robert Wyatt,
Simply Red,
Scion,
The Tremeloes,
The Sonics,
The Mummies,
Inner City,
Pierre Henry,
The Last Poets,
Gong,
Boredoms,
Moss Icon,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Fugazi,
Ultra Naté,
Todd Terry,
Make Up,
Dave Gahan,
The Human League,
Bad Manners,
Kenny Larkin,
Guru Guru,
Soul II Soul,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funky Four + One,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nas,
CMW,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Spoonie Gee,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Absolute Body Control,
Lou Reed,
Jandek,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Litter,
John Coltrane,
Graham Central Station,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Babytalk,
Tropical Tobacco,
Isaac Hayes,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.