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 Mozambique and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Larry & the Blue Notes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Enemy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Leonard Cohen,
Deepchord,
Pharoah Sanders,
Suburban Knight,
Bauhaus,
Ituana,
Groovy Waters,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lou Reed,
The Residents,
Nirvana,
The Happenings,
Television,
KRS-One,
Angry Samoans,
Easy Going,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Soft Cell,
Zero Boys,
Don Cherry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Judy Mowatt,
Circle Jerks,
Letta Mbulu,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Barracudas,
The United States of America,
the Bar-Kays,
E-Dancer,
Basic Channel,
Essential Logic,
Soulsonic Force,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Monochrome Set,
Hoover,
Gang of Four,
Underground Resistance,
Juan Atkins,
The Fire Engines,
Gang Green,
Saccharine Trust,
Section 25,
Symarip,
Urselle,
June of 44,
Vladislav Delay,
Tommy Roe,
Michelle Simonal,
Pylon,
Ludus,
The Moody Blues,
Sun City Girls,
The Sound,
Cluster,
Echospace,
Fat Boys,
The Electric Prunes,
Arab on Radar,
Massinfluence,
Godley & Creme,
the Human League,
EPMD,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.