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 Sierra Leone and from Tehran.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the rap 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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All Jerry Gold Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring 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 a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Mantronix,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Porter Ricks,
Cluster,
Easy Going,
8 Eyed Spy,
Fad Gadget,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Echospace,
Ice-T,
Kaleidoscope,
Gastr Del Sol,
Reuben Wilson,
Main Source,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Country Teasers,
Frankie Knuckles,
DJ Sneak,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lalann,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Metal Thangz,
Little Man,
Eve St. Jones,
Sound Behaviour,
Johnny Clarke,
Livin' Joy,
Godley & Creme,
The Doors,
Eli Mardock,
Drexciya,
Cheater Slicks,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Boredoms,
Radiopuhelimet,
Organ,
Aaron Thompson,
Quadrant,
Monolake,
Alice Coltrane,
Prince Buster,
The Skatalites,
The Dead C,
Matthew Halsall,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ohio Players,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fugazi,
Delon & Dalcan,
Soul II Soul,
The Young Rascals,
Talk Talk,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.