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 Sudan and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 The Zeros to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 FM Einheit. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro 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 rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Quando Quango,
Dual Sessions,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Remains,
The Human League,
Roxette,
David Axelrod,
Joe Smooth,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Siglo XX,
Sugar Minott,
The Busters,
Shuggie Otis,
Charles Mingus,
Circle Jerks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Bob Dylan,
Chris Corsano,
Surgeon,
U.S. Maple,
Rites of Spring,
Grauzone,
Fela Kuti,
Metal Thangz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
ABBA,
Glenn Branca,
CMW,
Khruangbin,
Scan 7,
Skriet,
LL Cool J,
Animal Collective,
Radiopuhelimet,
10cc,
Das Ding,
Soul Sonic Force,
Graham Central Station,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
New York Dolls,
The Star Department,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Motions,
Blossom Toes,
Amon Düül II,
Archie Shepp,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wolf Eyes,
Barbara Tucker,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Funkadelic,
Robert Hood,
Icehouse,
Echospace,
Eddi Front,
Technova,
L. Decosne,
Gastr Del Sol,
Average White Band,
Grey Daturas,
Scott Walker,
The Walker Brothers,
Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster, Prince Buster.
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.