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 Botswana and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Sisters of Mercy. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Techniques,
The Evens,
Jeru the Damaja,
Morten Harket,
Cheater Slicks,
In Retrospect,
Pagans,
Surgeon,
Joensuu 1685,
Excepter,
Interpol,
The Busters,
Dave Gahan,
Dark Day,
Popol Vuh,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Monochrome Set,
Aswad,
Depeche Mode,
Gang of Four,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jawbox,
The Litter,
Suicide,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Infiniti,
Sällskapet,
Barry Ungar,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bobby Byrd,
Echospace,
The Knickerbockers,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Althea and Donna,
Jeff Lynne,
Schoolly D,
Sandy B,
Blossom Toes,
H. Thieme,
Dual Sessions,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
X-101,
Kool Moe Dee,
AZ,
Godley & Creme,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Neon Judgement,
Moby Grape,
Robert Görl,
Suburban Knight,
Icehouse,
China Crisis,
Vainqueur,
Eric Dolphy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Black Moon,
Rekid,
Mr. Review,
Half Japanese,
The Fall, The Fall, The Fall, The Fall.
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.