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 Albania and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Monochrome Set to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Ludus. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every De La Soul & Jungle Brothers 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jesper Dahlback record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Bill Near,
Roxette,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DNA,
The Velvet Underground,
Procol Harum,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Zero Boys,
Easy Going,
Marc Almond,
Saccharine Trust,
Yellowson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Cal Tjader,
Sonic Youth,
the Soft Cell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Victims,
Drive Like Jehu,
Theoretical Girls,
Lebanon Hanover,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Zeros,
Rakim,
Janne Schatter,
Au Pairs,
Reuben Wilson,
The Kinks,
The United States of America,
Connie Case,
Groovy Waters,
Frankie Knuckles,
Joensuu 1685,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Fad Gadget,
Make Up,
Lower 48,
Ronnie Foster,
Susan Cadogan,
Stereo Dub,
David McCallum,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Music Machine,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Moleskins,
June of 44,
Minny Pops,
Bobby Womack,
Roy Ayers,
Black Flag,
Funkadelic,
Sällskapet,
Maleditus Sound,
Todd Terry,
X-Ray Spex,
Bang On A Can,
Country Teasers,
Japan,
The Fortunes,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.