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 East Timor and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 FM Einheit to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Dolphy 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Remains,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soulsonic Force,
Swans,
Pagans,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Joe Smooth,
The Buckinghams,
Carl Craig,
The Mighty Diamonds,
John Foxx,
Animal Collective,
The Techniques,
Derrick May,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Raincoats,
Scientists,
Siglo XX,
Lalo Schifrin,
Metal Thangz,
Sun Ra,
Depeche Mode,
The Golliwogs,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Trumans Water,
These Immortal Souls,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fluxion,
Khruangbin,
The Birthday Party,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
New York Dolls,
Eric Dolphy,
Toni Rubio,
Joe Finger,
Lalann,
Vainqueur,
World's Most,
The Human League,
Jawbox,
D'Angelo,
The Angels of Light,
Procol Harum,
Rites of Spring,
The Star Department,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Anthony Braxton,
Flipper,
Todd Terry,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fela Kuti,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Happenings,
Tears for Fears,
Barrington Levy,
Franke,
Lee Hazlewood,
Wire,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Urselle,
Hasil Adkins,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.