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 Djibouti and from Sao Paulo.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sam Rivers. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) 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 '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 Brick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Johnny Osbourne,
Supertramp,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Blake Baxter,
Brass Construction,
Hoover,
The Zeros,
Electric Prunes,
Mary Jane Girls,
the Germs,
Camouflage,
Bluetip,
Rosa Yemen,
The Fuzztones,
Sixth Finger,
The Grass Roots,
Symarip,
Godley & Creme,
Fugazi,
Joensuu 1685,
Masters at Work,
Hasil Adkins,
Ornette Coleman,
Fad Gadget,
the Sonics,
Con Funk Shun,
Agent Orange,
Vainqueur,
Ohio Players,
Henry Cow,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Young Rascals,
The Names,
Hot Snakes,
Bobby Sherman,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Black Dice,
Black Flag,
Pet Shop Boys,
Matthew Bourne,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Brick,
Marine Girls,
Khruangbin,
X-101,
Jeff Lynne,
Tears for Fears,
Scratch Acid,
Albert Ayler,
Ronan,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sound Behaviour,
Severed Heads,
Soft Machine,
Charles Mingus,
PIL,
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You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.