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 Iceland and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tehran.
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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Q65 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Kool G Rap & DJ Polo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Throbbing Gristle 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?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Alton Ellis,
The Move,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
In Retrospect,
Lower 48,
Circle Jerks,
Procol Harum,
Kool Moe Dee,
Reuben Wilson,
Derrick Morgan,
Easy Going,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Scan 7,
Absolute Body Control,
The New Christs,
Sound Behaviour,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Urselle,
John Holt,
Motorama,
Sugar Minott,
The Mummies,
a-ha,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Fat Boys,
The Fortunes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Jeff Lynne,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Johnny Osbourne,
Shoche,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Young Marble Giants,
Eve St. Jones,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Sonics,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
June of 44,
Au Pairs,
Iggy Pop,
Technova,
Khruangbin,
Mad Mike,
Scott Walker,
Aaron Thompson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ossler,
Fluxion,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pylon,
Eli Mardock,
Laurel Aitken,
Jerry Gold Smith,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.