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 Korea South and from Bremen.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 La Düsseldorf to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
D'Angelo,
X-102,
Electric Prunes,
Leonard Cohen,
Suicide,
Anakelly,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Fugs,
Gregory Isaacs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bang On A Can,
New Order,
The Black Dice,
Sex Pistols,
Joyce Sims,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tom Boy,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Television Personalities,
Vladislav Delay,
Faraquet,
Youth Brigade,
The Leaves,
John Holt,
Anthony Braxton,
Joe Smooth,
Derrick May,
Stetsasonic,
Cheater Slicks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Section 25,
Metal Thangz,
John Lydon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mantronix,
Deepchord,
Judy Mowatt,
Sällskapet,
Maurizio,
Sun Ra,
Q and Not U,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kaleidoscope,
Pet Shop Boys,
Flamin' Groovies,
Barclay James Harvest,
Erykah Badu,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Au Pairs,
Unwound,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
ABC,
Lightning Bolt,
Rosa Yemen,
Magazine,
Barry Ungar,
The Gladiators,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magma,
Stockholm Monsters,
Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone.
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.