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 Peru and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 oboe 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 Groovy Waters to the jazz 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bronski Beat 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
Laurel Aitken,
The Wake,
Neil Young,
Little Man,
Yusef Lateef,
Funky Four + One,
Letta Mbulu,
The Durutti Column,
Bad Manners,
The Raincoats,
Crooked Eye,
Magma,
kango's stein massive,
Mr. Review,
Lakeside,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lower 48,
Harmonia,
Scan 7,
Kayak,
Schoolly D,
Flamin' Groovies,
Throbbing Gristle,
David Bowie,
Graham Central Station,
Qualms,
Scott Walker,
Sun Ra,
Skaos,
Gichy Dan,
The Smoke,
Los Fastidios,
Liliput,
The Electric Prunes,
Suburban Knight,
Michelle Simonal,
The Birthday Party,
Moss Icon,
Negative Approach,
Lebanon Hanover,
Soft Cell,
Roy Ayers,
Sällskapet,
Jeff Lynne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Neon Judgement,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Mantronix,
Jeru the Damaja,
Zero Boys,
Sonic Youth,
the Sonics,
Aural Exciters,
Lightning Bolt,
Quando Quango,
The Doors,
Joyce Sims,
The Trojans,
Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented, Tres Demented.
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.