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 Germany and from Philadelphia.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Groovy Waters to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Skatalites. All the underground hits.
All The American Breed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Robert Hood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Symarip,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dorothy Ashby,
Marcia Griffiths,
Barbara Tucker,
New Order,
Rotary Connection,
the Association,
Minny Pops,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pere Ubu,
The Music Machine,
Moebius,
Kerrie Biddell,
Anakelly,
Connie Case,
The Five Americans,
Harry Pussy,
Tomorrow,
Rapeman,
Fatback Band,
Gang Starr,
Chrome,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Remains,
Tommy Roe,
Country Teasers,
Scott Walker,
Animal Collective,
Robert Görl,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Iggy Pop,
Althea and Donna,
Faust,
T. Rex,
Marine Girls,
New York Dolls,
Neu!,
The Dead C,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Avey Tare,
The Alarm Clocks,
Desert Stars,
Sarah Menescal,
Chris Corsano,
Accadde A,
KRS-One,
Sonic Youth,
Vladislav Delay,
Anthony Braxton,
Ice-T,
Lower 48,
Chris & Cosey,
Morten Harket,
Aaron Thompson,
Motorama,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.