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 Botswana and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Anakelly to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a China Crisis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Groovy Waters,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
La Düsseldorf,
John Holt,
Flamin' Groovies,
Todd Terry,
Eli Mardock,
Fluxion,
Monolake,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Fire Engines,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Darondo,
Qualms,
Mad Mike,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kerri Chandler,
Malaria!,
The Dave Clark Five,
Urselle,
Depeche Mode,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eric Dolphy,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bad Manners,
The Selecter,
Bush Tetras,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Das Ding,
Lungfish,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Birthday Party,
Godley & Creme,
Brass Construction,
Pulsallama,
Josef K,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Stooges,
Pere Ubu,
Jacob Miller,
The Monks,
Soul Sonic Force,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Trumans Water,
Aloha Tigers,
Model 500,
B.T. Express,
The Beau Brummels,
ABC,
Throbbing Gristle,
Erasure,
Roger Hodgson,
Agitation Free,
Rotary Connection,
Aural Exciters,
Sly & The Family Stone,
T. Rex,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus.
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.