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 Bolivia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Accra.
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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fluxion to the rock 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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
X-102,
Mars,
Au Pairs,
Maleditus Sound,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rites of Spring,
Public Enemy,
Make Up,
Altered Images,
Buzzcocks,
Cluster,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jesper Dahlback,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Darondo,
A Certain Ratio,
Thompson Twins,
Amon Düül,
E-Dancer,
Henry Cow,
Andrew Hill,
Dual Sessions,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lower 48,
Gang Gang Dance,
R.M.O.,
Ultravox,
The Move,
The Knickerbockers,
The Count Five,
Smog,
The Seeds,
Model 500,
Infiniti,
Q and Not U,
Faraquet,
Johnny Osbourne,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Malaria!,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
K-Klass,
Leonard Cohen,
Mandrill,
MDC,
The Beau Brummels,
Talk Talk,
Derrick Morgan,
Terry Callier,
John Holt,
48th St. Collective,
David Axelrod,
The Fugs,
cv313,
Urselle,
AZ,
Matthew Bourne,
The United States of America,
Fatback Band,
The Vogues,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.