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 Madagascar and from Jakarta.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 clarinet 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 Alphaville to the grunge 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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Barbara Tucker tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Clear Light record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
Janne Schatter,
Dave Gahan,
Joey Negro,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Hot Snakes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Little Man,
Alton Ellis,
Boz Scaggs,
Carl Craig,
Marmalade,
the Association,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Real Kids,
Severed Heads,
Icehouse,
Technova,
Basic Channel,
The Sonics,
Grauzone,
The Kinks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Aswad,
Drexciya,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Techniques,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Avey Tare,
Tubeway Army,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Amon Düül,
Sun City Girls,
Derrick May,
Rapeman,
Donald Byrd,
The Detroit Cobras,
These Immortal Souls,
Black Pus,
Skriet,
E-Dancer,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sixth Finger,
Goldenarms,
Groovy Waters,
Thee Headcoats,
Camberwell Now,
Graham Central Station,
Excepter,
Visage,
Altered Images,
Fluxion,
Soul II Soul,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Lungfish,
The Barracudas,
MC5,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jawbox,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.