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 Saudi Arabia and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lucky Dragons to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerrie Biddell 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Charles Mingus,
Aloha Tigers,
David Axelrod,
Gang Green,
Warren Ellis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Hot Snakes,
Neil Young,
Circle Jerks,
Eli Mardock,
Drexciya,
The Young Rascals,
Peter and Kerry,
Skaos,
Eric Copeland,
The Doobie Brothers,
Derrick May,
Thee Headcoats,
Ronan,
Danielle Patucci,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Happenings,
Janne Schatter,
Amon Düül II,
The Pop Group,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Television,
Interpol,
Sällskapet,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Brand Nubian,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Quadrant,
Bill Wells,
Sarah Menescal,
Amon Düül,
Howard Jones,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Groovy Waters,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Mojo Men,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Yusef Lateef,
Lyres,
Ten City,
48th St. Collective,
Al Stewart,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Public Image Ltd.,
Neu!,
The Barracudas,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Gap Band,
Black Bananas,
Bob Dylan,
New Age Steppers,
DJ Style,
Absolute Body Control,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani, Piero Umiliani.
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.