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 Switzerland and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Silicon Teens to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pulsallama 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
8 Eyed Spy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Soft Machine,
Connie Case,
Eden Ahbez,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Derrick May,
Dennis Brown,
The Misunderstood,
Visage,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Divine Comedy,
Black Flag,
Kool Moe Dee,
Index,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Soul II Soul,
John Lydon,
Warren Ellis,
Josef K,
AZ,
The Kinks,
Lucky Dragons,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Minor Threat,
Deepchord,
Quando Quango,
The Monochrome Set,
Nils Olav,
Brick,
Silicon Teens,
The Knickerbockers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Marshall Jefferson,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Moody Blues,
Blake Baxter,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sällskapet,
Davy DMX,
Dawn Penn,
Kaleidoscope,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Harmonia,
Ash Ra Tempel,
the Normal,
Iggy Pop,
Carl Craig,
ABC,
Audionom,
Con Funk Shun,
The Detroit Cobras,
Von Mondo,
Eurythmics,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tres Demented,
LL Cool J,
Terry Callier,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.